HealthData Archiver®

Hospitals and clinics that move to a new electronic health record system often find that the old one cannot simply be switched off. The vendor behind HealthData Archiver describes this situation as a growing one: EHR replacements are becoming more common, and the way the data is structured often makes a full conversion too complicated or too costly. The result is two systems to manage, the new EHR and the legacy platform it was meant to replace.

Working on the old system while staff learn the new one

HealthData Archiver is offered as a service that runs alongside the new rollout. While clinical and administrative staff settle into the new software, the vendor handles the retired system and the historical information left inside it. Its stated aim is to let an organization shut the legacy platform down, which in the vendor's words reduces cost and risk.

Extract, migrate, retain

The work is described in three steps. Records are first extracted from the legacy system, then migrated into an archive, and finally retained so that the organization stays compliant with the rules that apply to health records. Once the history is safe in the archive, the old system can be decommissioned instead of being kept running only for occasional look-ups.