Healthcare Archival Strategy Whitepaper

This content was originally created by Galen Healthcare, now part of RLDatix.

Analyzing the spectrum of options from a legal and clinical perspective.

Abstract
Healthcare organizations face unique requirements when it comes to retiring clinical systems. Understanding the various approaches to extraction, transformation, and storage of the contents of clinical systems is critical to correctly assessing their suitability for a usable and compliant healthcare data archival.

Key Takeaways:

• Migrating data to a new EMR is not an archival strategy.
• The ability to offer robust legal and clinical archives can be greatly affected by approaches to extraction, transformation, loading and storage of data.
• It is common for solutions to make significant trade offs, often sacrificing end-user accessibility for implementation speed and cost or visa versa.
• Generic archival tools that are not specific to the healthcare industry often fail to deliver on the needs of clinicians and HIM teams without significant post archival effort.

VitalCenter Online is now known as Data Archiving.