Hospital CIOs face what may seem like conflicting challenges when decommissioning legacy systems. They face pressure to remain compliant, retain access to necessary data, prevent disruptions in workflow, and mitigate costs. The [Continue Reading]
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Medical Record Retention Tips for Medical Practices
When decommissioning an EMR or PM system, it is important to know which records you need and how long you need to retain them. Your medical record retention plan need [Continue Reading]
How to Safeguard Patient Data During a System Change
As a medical practice, you know you are responsible for the security of your patients’ electronic medical information. What you may not realize is that changing practice management or EMR [Continue Reading]
Medical Data Archival Planning: What to look for in a Vendor
Technology is rapidly evolving and healthcare facilities like yours increasingly need to retire and archive legacy EMRs/EHRs and billing systems. Since the typical goal of medical data archival is to completely decommission the [Continue Reading]
How long should a doctor keep medical records from a legacy EMR system?
Practices ask us every day, ‘I have changed systems & want to turn off my legacy EMR system. How long should a doctor keep medical records?‘. For long term medical [Continue Reading]
EMR Data Conversions
EMR Data Conversions – In-house or Outsource? If you are an EHR or PM vendor, healthcare IT company or consultant you have helped many practices with EMR data conversions. When it comes [Continue Reading]
What to do with old data
Practices are changing practice management systems faster than ever before. Old data needs a home and it is not necessarily with the new PM system. Practices that are selling to [Continue Reading]