How To Retire Legacy Systems, Reduce Costs, And Maintain Access

Critical IT initiatives such as CPOE are straining IT resources and budgets as meaningful use deadlines loom. Healthcare is increasingly data driven. Hospital IT leaders face challenges not only in keeping pace with new initiatives but also in manage a growing collec- tion of legacy data systems. As new HIT systems are implemented, multiple legacy systems are left behind, requiring an overworked IT staff to provide internal sup- port and maintain access to this complex combination of platforms. This briefing provides an overview of how active data archiving technology can be employed to address the many problems associated with healthcare legacy data management.

Traditional options for managing healthcare legacy data all have inherent and significant risks that can affect cash flow, the implementation and optimization of new systems and the legally mandated retention of healthcare data. As more hospitals migrate to new clinical and financial health information systems such as Epic, Siemens Soarian and Paragon, older systems such as Invision, Medseries 4, HealthQuest, IDX Last Healthcare Legacy Systems: How to retire them, reduce costs and maintain access to all the data using active data archiving. Word, CareCast, FlowCast, Allscripts and others house vital data required for data retention compliance and financial management.

While converting patient demographic data to new systems may be straightforward, attempting to fully convert clinical data such as lab results, radiology reports, pharmacy, order history, ambulatory and in- patient data is expensive, time consuming and some- times, simply not possible. Patient Accounting data sets are not handled the same way in new systems and presents significant risk, such as lost revenue, if a full conversion to the new system is attempted.

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