Chief Healthcare Executive October 13, 2024
A modern archive strategy treats data as powerful information that continues to have value, regardless of the age of the data.
Data may be a hospital’s most valuable asset.
However, most data is locked in antiquated software systems that are difficult to access, pose security risks, and likely won’t be formatted the same way as data from subsequent software versions and systems.
For many hospital and health system executives, migrating data from legacy systems is transactional — get the data migrated in any format and let it sit until needed for compliance, regulatory, billing, clinical, or release of information requests. Migrating data this way seriously limits its future utility.
Executives with longer-term visions recognize the value of the information locked...