These best practices help FQHCs modernize confidently, ensuring secure, seamless, and scalable healthcare delivery.

Interoperability That Reduces Burden and Elevates Outcomes

• Implement standards such as HL7 and FHIR for seamless data exchange between different EHR systems and healthcare providers Reduce the number of legacy systems to improve operational efficiency and reduce maintenance costs.
• Use secure, efficient methods for migrating data from legacy systems to newer platforms while ensuring no data loss or integrity issues.
• Make patient data readily available to authorized personnel across the organization to improve clinical decision-making.

Build Trust Through Compliance-Driven Data Practices

• Adhere to healthcare-specific regulations such as HIPAA, the 21st Century Cures Act, and the HITECH Act.
• Implement encryption and secure data storage protocols to protect PHI.
• Maintain detailed audit trails to track access to and changes in data.
• Regularly conduct internal audits.
• Ensure that patient consent is managed and documented per regulations and organizational policy.
• Develop a comprehensive data governance framework that defines roles, responsibilities, and data stewardship.

Over time, many FQHCs must replace their current EHRs with more robust systems that better address their needs. Harmony Healthcare IT can help create a successful legacy data management plan for a successful transition.

As EHR systems are replaced, HealthData Archiver^®, our long-term data storage solution, supports compliance requirements for clinical, financial, and operational records. Archived data is available to clinicians during care through secure Single Sign-On capabilities.

Benefits of HealthData Archiver^®

• HealthData Archiver^® complies with record retention mandates and supports the interoperability requirements of the 21st Century Act.
• Hosted in a Tier 3, SOC2 HITRUST-certified data center, HealthData Archiver^® provides secure, streamlined, and compliant access to legacy records. We adhere to 545+ controls pulled from HIPAA/HITECH, ISO27001, NIST SP 800-53, COBIT, and PCI DSS security standards. We encrypt data at rest and in transit and integrate LDAP and auditing tools to audit user activity and internal threats.
• The platform’s easy-to-use archive features include the release of information workflows, integrated clinical views, revenue cycle features, search capabilities, and workflow improvements.
• Health systems can realize an ROI on HealthData Archiver^® in as little as 18 months to 2 years.

A solid legacy data archive is an innovative way to manage historical patient and operational data well into the future.

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