HealthsystemCIO.com March 13, 2020
Kate Gamble

Data, data, everywhere.

Any time a health system is migrating to a new system, there are decisions that have to be made with the data — what needs to be accessible, what can be archived, and how should it be done. For Intermountain Healthcare’s case, which embarked on an enormous initiative to replace 40-year-old self-developed systems with an integrated platform (Cerner), the questions seemed endless.

“We had lots of applications, a lot of legacy data, and a lot of challenges,” said Marc Probst, who has held the CIO role at Intermountain since 2003. One of those challenges? Ensuring data is usable and applicable after “hundreds, if not thousands of applications” were retired, without having to continue to pay licensing fees.

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