Case Study: Homerton University Hospital achieves vendor-neutral cross-department image management with BridgeHead VNA

Homerton NHS Trust Selects BridgeHead VNA for Cross Departmental Image Data Management System

Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust faced the challenge of repatriating its radiology PACS image archive after exiting a national IT program. The Trust needed a long-term, flexible strategy to manage this data and support its impending PACS replacement, all while facilitating better data sharing across departments and with external partners. To address this, Homerton selected BridgeHead Software to implement its Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) solution.

BridgeHead's VNA provided Homerton with a vendor-agnostic primary data repository, giving the Trust complete flexibility in its future PACS selection. The solution enabled a more strategic, tiered approach to data storage, moving less critical data to more cost-effective media while ensuring integrity and availability. It also supported the hospital's wider disaster recovery strategy by enabling data movement to the cloud. BridgeHead's implementation provided Homerton with a financially predictable, scalable foundation to become a cross-departmental repository for all types of information.

Homerton University Hospital

Dzinja Kabambe

Head of Strategic IT Projects