Case Study: Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust achieves faster PACS data localisation with BridgeHead Software’s VNA

Gateshead Health Chooses BridgeHead’s VNA for its Image Data Management Strategy

Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust, an NHS trust operating from multiple sites in the UK, faced the critical challenge of localizing 15TB of medical imaging data from a national archive before its contract expired. The Trust's long-term strategy was to create a comprehensive Electronic Patient Record, and it needed a vendor-neutral archive (VNA) to store these images and serve as a central repository for future data, thereby avoiding vendor lock-in for its upcoming PACS replacement.

BridgeHead Software implemented its Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) solution to address these challenges. The solution enabled the Trust to dramatically reduce the estimated data migration time from 10 months down to just 12 weeks, providing a fast and cost-effective resolution to the immediate contract deadline. The BridgeHead VNA provided a standards-based, vendor-agnostic repository for all historic and current PACS data, giving the Trust full control over its information and establishing a foundation for its future electronic patient record system.

Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust

Claire Jones

Radiology IT Systems Manager