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Healthcare Data Stewardship

Information governance in healthcare is relatively new, with focused efforts beginning in 1997. What started as an...

Dec 12
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Six Ways Legacy Systems Expose Healthcare Organizations to Security Risks

  Electronic health record systems (EHRs) have an important and expanding responsibility to enable interoperability (record sharing)...

Dec 02 3 min read

Hospital Data Growth: Key Considerations for Healthcare Enterprises

Healthcare data production recently reached 2,314 exabytes (EB) per year. An exabyte is 1,000 times larger than...

Nov 06
Legacy Data Management for Pharmacies - Six Challenges to Beat

Beat the Six Challenges of Pharmacy Legacy Data Management

The U.S. pharmacy market is growing. Net spending in the past five years increased $102 billion with...

Oct 22
USCDI

USCDI: Supporting Interoperability Requirements of the Cures Act

Written by David Navarro, Senior Director of Data Science, Harmony Healthcare IT What is the USCDI? United...

Sep 04 5 min read
Risks of Ignoring Legacy Data Management

Nine Risks of Ignoring Legacy Data Management

“Abandoned” legacy data left in old EMR/EHRs can create a lot of challenges. While the data is...

Jul 10
10 things to consider when switching EHRs

10 Things to Consider When Switching EMR or EHR Platforms

When to transition EHR or EMR systems With most healthcare enterprises operating 10 EHRs with 16 EHR...

Apr 24
Spring cleaning your legacy data

Four Steps to Tackle Legacy Data Spring Cleaning

If your organization has accumulated a collection of out-of-production software applications, it is time to cut the...

Apr 01 4 min read
Patient Matching Matters

Why Patient Identity Management Is A Major Concern in Healthcare

A patient’s medical record has zero room for error. The electronic healthcare data that is generated and...

Mar 25

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