Healthcare organisations rely on digital laboratory communications systems to move information between departments, clinicians, and other healthcare providers. When those systems contain critical information and are inter-connected, the infrastructure supporting them needs to be reliable.
That’s one of the reasons DMF Systems is moving MediBRIDGE to the cloud.
Moving MediBRIDGE from physical infrastructure to a cloud-hosted environment will reduce the risks associated with physical hardware, improve reliability, and enable faster recovery in the event of an issue.
For our customers, that means a more reliable MediBRIDGE laboratory communications service.
It also reflects a wider move towards cloud healthcare, as healthcare organisations look at how their infrastructure can better support the systems they rely on every day.
Reduced reliance on physical infrastructure
Traditional infrastructure relies on physical hardware. If that hardware fails, loses power or is affected by an issue at its physical location, the systems running on it can be disrupted.
Cloud hosting reduces reliance on individual pieces of hardware and locations.
This is particularly important in healthcare, where many systems need to be available around the clock. If an integration platform experiences an infrastructure problem, the impact may be felt by other systems that rely on it to send and receive information.
Moving MediBRIDGE to the cloud helps reduce this risk.
Improved reliability
Healthcare integration depends on reliable connections between systems.
MediBRIDGE enables information to move between separate healthcare systems, helping hospitals, laboratories and other healthcare providers make information available where it is needed.
Cloud infrastructure provides greater redundancy than relying on a single physical environment. If part of the underlying infrastructure experiences an issue, there are more options available to maintain or restore the service.
For MediBRIDGE, this reduces the risk of an infrastructure issue causing downtime.
Faster recovery if something goes wrong
Preventing problems is important, but so is being able to recover quickly if something does go wrong.
No infrastructure can eliminate every possible technical issue or outage. With physical infrastructure, recovery may depend on repairing or replacing hardware. Cloud hosting gives us more options to restore services without the same reliance on a particular physical server.
That can make recovery quicker.
In healthcare, downtime can affect systems and information flows that support day-to-day clinical and operational work. Reducing the time it takes to recover helps minimise that disruption.
Why cloud laboratory communications matter for healthcare integration
Healthcare organisations use a wide range of clinical, laboratory, and administrative systems, many of which need to exchange information with each other.
The infrastructure behind those connections matters. If an organisation is reviewing a healthcare integration solution, where and how that solution is hosted should be part of the conversation.
Reliability and recovery are obvious considerations, but capacity matters too. Cloud infrastructure can be adjusted as demand changes without having to install or replace physical hardware.
These are some of the practical reasons cloud healthcare infrastructure is becoming more common, particularly for systems like laboratory communications, that other applications and services depend on.
What the move means for MediBRIDGE
Moving MediBRIDGE to the cloud is an important update to the way we host and manage the laboratory communications platform.
The move will provide:
- Less reliance on physical infrastructure, reducing the risks associated with individual hardware and locations
- Improved reliability, with greater redundancy built into the hosting environment
- Faster recovery, allowing us to respond more quickly to infrastructure issues
- Less potential downtime, reducing disruption for organisations using MediBRIDGE
- More flexibility, allowing infrastructure capacity to be adjusted as needs change
For more than 20 years, MediBRIDGE has helped healthcare organisations securely exchange information between systems. Moving it to the cloud is another step in making sure the service remains dependable for the organisations that use it.
