Healthcare Legacy Data Management Interview Series, Part 2
“Healthcare Legacy Data Management, an Overview of Data Archiving and System Decommissioning with Rick Adams” is the title of a new executive interview series published by Harmony Healthcare IT. In the interview, Rick Adams, the Managing Partner of Harmony Healthcare IT, talks about many of the issues that IT leaders are faced with in developing [...]
Healthcare Legacy Data Management Interview Series
Legacy data management and health data archiving are some of the topics covered in a recent interview by Harmony Healthcare IT’s Managing Partner, Rick Adams. In this wide ranging interview, Rick answers questions on how health data archiving has evolved over the years as well as where it is headed.
When asked about the evolution of [...]
Helping ‘Former’ Users of Medical Manager Properly Archive Data
Medical practices migrating off of The Medical Manager® software may be at risk. That old system contains individually-identifiable protected health information (PHI) that, according to state and federal mandates, must be secured and archived for at least 7-10 years. Maintaining your Medical Manager system for that length of time may entail support costs [...]
Health Record Retention from Legacy Practice Management Systems
All data has a lifecycle. Protected healthcare information also comes with some rigid retention requirements. That means that when your medical practice moves from one practice management system to another, legacy health records must be retained in their full integrity.
Is your medical practice at risk? Have you been so focused on “moving forward” to achieve the meaningful use of [...]
Archiving Medical Records in the Ambulatory Care Office
For ambulatory care system administrators who have migrated off of a legacy practice management system — you may be at risk!
That old practice management system contains individually-identifiable protected health information (PHI) that must be secured and archived. State and federal mandates dictate that PHI is stored for a minimum of 7-10 years.
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Health Data Archiving for Legacy Practice Management Systems
Harmony Healthcare IT’s Health Data Archiver stores data from old practice management systems that are being retired or replaced.
The data from the practice management system, in its entirety and with full data integrity, is archived to a universally-accepted standard format, catalogued for easy access and viewed via a browser. Patient accounts are accessed by searching on name, date of [...]
Medical Office Data Retention Webinars on 3/23 and 3/24 2010
Harmony Healthcare IT will host, on 3/23 and 3/24 of 2010, webinars on how to securely store legacy practice management data to meet state and federal record retention regulations.
Are you familiar with state and federal mandates that determine how long your practice should store historical data from your practice management system?
As practices move to electronic health [...]
State Medical Record Retention Laws Complicate White House Plans
Written by Aliya Sternstein at NextGov.com in July of 2009, this article explains why some vendors and hospital managers believe that varying state medical record retention regulations may add cost to the Obama administration’s plan to implement electronic health records.
A patchwork of conflicting state regulations may hamper the Obama administration’s plan to quickly cut health [...]
Medical Office Data Storage Webinar on 2/25/10
Harmony Healthcare IT will host, on 2/25/10, a webinar on how to securely store legacy practice management data to meet state and federal record retention regulations.
Are you familiar with state and federal mandates that determine how long your practice should store historical data from your practice management system?
As practices move to electronic health record (EHR) [...]
Archive Data from Your Retired Practice Management System
To meet regulatory requirements, data from your practice management system should be kept accessible for a minimum of 7-10 years. For protecting patient health information, we offer easy-to-use solutions that lower support cost and reduce risk of aging infrastructure.
Data from the practice management software is converted from its architecture into a relational Microsoft® SQL database. [...]
Accessing Data from a Retired Practice Management System
As more and more medical practices move to electronic health records, they may be retiring a legacy practice management system with years of historical demographic, financial, and clinical data.
At Harmony Healthcare IT, we provide an affordable solution that allows secure, web-based access to the historical patient account information — in full detail.
Access full patient account detail in [...]