Southampton FC works with data firm to assist physio staff
Southampton Football Club has selected data and storage management company BridgeHead to assist the long-term consolidation, protection and secure sharing of its players’ medical images.
The aim is to support the club’s clinicians in assessing injuries, collaborating on player rehabilitation and developing education and injury prevention strategies.
The company’s Independent Clinical Archive (ICA), HealthStore, will provide a central repository for all players’ medical images, such as ultrasounds and MRIs, enabling club medical staff and authorised hospital specialists to access and view that data, when and where they need to, securely, on any approved device.
Dr Steve Baynes, Southampton Football Club’s first team doctor said: “Being able to access, view and collaborate with my medical colleagues, wherever they might be around the world, means that quicker diagnostic and treatment decisions can be made for our players and can reduce their time away from the pitch.
“It’s also important for the medical team to have a full view of players’ information when carrying out pre-signing medicals or monitoring serious injuries over a period of time. BridgeHead’s HealthStore will allow us to easily compare scans showing progression or improvement and, ultimately, make rehabilitation recommendations that positively impact player recovery and performance.”
The BridgeHead solution will allow Southampton Football Club to effectively centralise and manage their players’ medical images, ensuring regulatory, compliance and governance obligations are met; and will also provide protection and security of that data, utilising encryption as well as the ability to carefully control access to authorised personnel.
Jim Beagle, CEO of BridgeHead Software, said: “Increasingly elite sports teams are recognising the challenges associated with rising levels of disparate medical data often spread throughout an organisation and its associated partners. Good quality data management not only improves privacy, security and compliance, but it also drives innovation. We’re delighted to be working with a premier league football team, like Southampton Football Club, who is taking action to bring together its players’ medical images in order to maximise performance, as well as equipping the medical team with technology that helps them to deepen their understanding of injury prevention and rehabilitation.”