Harmony Healthcare IT (HHIT) will attend as an exhibitor at the NextGen ONE User Group Meeting in Las Vegas, NV on November 2-5, 2014. (more…)

Harmony Healthcare IT will attend, next week, the North Carolina Healthcare Information & Communications Alliance, Inc. (NCHICA) 20th Annual Conference & Exhibition as both a speaker and exhibitor. (more…)

As technology evolves, IT Directors replace old technology with new. Due to cost and complexity, complete clinical data conversions from the old system to the new are atypical. This can result in a portfolio of read-only systems that carry (more…)

As technology evolves, IT Directors replace old technology with new. Due to cost and complexity, complete EMR conversion from the old system to the new are atypical. This can result in a portfolio of read-only systems that carry

• a hefty maintenance price tag
• an IT labor burden
• long-term user training issues
• technical risk as servers age

Indiana University Health changed all that by implementing Health Data Archiver.

Tara Williams, MSN, RN Director Inforamtion Services Indiana University Health Bedford Hospital “We needed to comply with medical record retention requirements,” says Tara Williams, MSN, RN and Director of Information Systems at Indiana University Health Bedford Hospital, “but, we knew that our costs would be cut significantly if we archived versus keeping inactive systems up and running long-term.”

When evaluating medical data storage solutions, Tara and her team sought a healthcare data storage vendor who could consolidate the data from disparate legacy systems into a single relational database. They wanted a system that would be both easy to use and to maintain for decades to come.

“When it came right down to it,” Tara says, “the simplicity of Health Data Archiver was what won us over. Honestly, I think my kids could teach you how to use this product.”

Health Data Archiver is an easy-to-use, vendor-neutral repository that helps reduce the costs of legacy system maintenance and bypass the complexity of conversions. Unlike active archives that re-create a medical billing system, Health Data Archiver is an intuitive static archive requiring little to no training.

“Our analysis shows an 18-month return on investment,” says Tara. “To eliminate the support costs, license fees and IT administration burden of multiple legacy systems over time is a no-brainer.”

IU Health Bedord Hospital is a critical access facility located in Bedford, IN. To start, they have arranged for Harmony Healthcare IT to archive three legacy systems into a single repository. The solution will scale over time as additional protected health information is secured for long-term healthcare data storage.

Harmony Healthcare IT (HHIT) is the developer and service provider for Health Data Archiver, a long-term medical data storage solution for protected health information. Health Data Archiver allows both ambulatory and acute healthcare organizations to comply with state medical record retention mandates. In addition to medical data archiving, HHIT also performs clinical and financial data extractions, migrations, conversions, integrations, exchanges and analytics.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as expected, has formally finalized and announced (via press release today) that October 1, 2015 is the new compliance date for providers and payers to transition to ICD-10. (more…)

Harmony Healthcare IT is pleased to announce that it is exhibiting Health Data Archiver, a long-term HIPAA-compliant storage solution for protected health information (PHI), at the 2014 Critical Access Conference for the Texas Organization of Rural & Community Hospitals(TORCH). (more…)

Harmony Healthcare IT is pleased to announce that it is exhibiting Health Data Archiver, a long-term HIPAA-compliant EMR storage solution for protected health information (PHI), at the 2014 Critical Access Conference for the Texas Organization of Rural & Community Hospitals (TORCH). This event takes place at the Hyatt Lost Pines Resort in Bastrop, TX from June 25-26, 2014.

TORCH is an organization of rural and community hospitals, corporations and interested individuals working together to address the special needs and issues of rural and community hospitals, staff and patients they serve. Representatives from Harmony Healthcare IT will network with hospital CEOs, CIOs and CFOs about the benefits of extracting patient data from retired hospital information systems and archiving to a web-based and vendor-neutral product to secure patient data long-term.

Some of the benefits of implementing Health Data Archiver into a healthcare enterprise include:

• Reduction in Legacy System Costs. Secures PHI at a fraction of the cost it takes to maintain and support legacy software and hardware.
• Simplification of Care Giver Access & Collaboration. Allows for swift access to historical patient data, enabling successful care transitions to other stakeholders.
• Minimization of Litigation and Audit Risk. Provides compliance with state and federal medical record retention requirements for PHI by storing clinical and financial data as well as scanned documents.
• Consolidation of Disparate Legacy Data Sources. Creates a universal repository for patient information across the care continuum, eliminating legacy data EHR/PM silos as physician practices are acquired.
• Elimination of Data Conversion Issues. Bypasses the expense, complexity and data mapping issues associated with large-scale EHR data conversions into a new EHR software.

If you are interested in seeing a demonstration of Health Data Archiver or in strategizing on your data retention policy, contact us to arrange a meeting with one of our archiving specialists.

When a hospital replaces an old system with new, it may be at risk with how data from the legacy system is managed.  According to state mandates, protected health information (PHI) must be retained for seven to 25 years depending on data type. (more…)

Eliminates Need for Expensive Medical Manager Software Upgrades and Long-term Contracts

Harmony Healthcare IT (HHIT), a health information technology firm in South Bend, IN, formally announces today its relationship with nationally recognized health information (more…)