Healthcare data volumes are growing, compliance obligations are expanding, and mergers and acquisitions are continuing to shape the healthcare landscape. For large health systems, lifecycle data management is not optional—it is foundational to financial sustainability, patient care, and risk reduction. 

A successful data strategy must address three core areas across an organization: 

Data Access

At health system scale, access requirements extend far beyond a single application or department. Clinicians need reliable access to the full longitudinal patient record at the point of care. HIM teams must support timely, compliant release of information. Patients expect simplified, centralized access to their data, regardless of how many systems have been retired or replaced over time. 

Harmony Healthcare IT helps health systems: 

• Preserve access to historical clinical, financial, and business records 

• Enforce role‑based access controls across large user populations 

• Maintain confidence that historical data remains accurate, complete, and secure.  

Interoperability

Coordinated care goes hand in hand with coordinated systems across the enterprise. In large systems, interoperability challenges are amplified by acquisitions, multi-EHR environments, and numerous legacy applications.  

Harmony Healthcare IT helps health systems enhance interoperability by: 

• Supporting application rationalization initiatives to improve operational efficiency and reduce maintenance costs. 

• Extracting and converting data from legacy systems into modern platforms. 

• Ensuring authorized users can access historical data across facilities and service lines.  

Compliance and Security

Large hospitals and health systems often face heightened scrutiny from regulators and auditors. Maintaining security and compliance across dozens of legacy applications—many of which may be outdated—introduces significant risks. 

Harmony Healthcare IT supports compliance and security programs by helping health systems:  

• Meet requirements under HIPAA, the 21st Century Cures Act, and HITECH.  

• Apply encryption and secure storage protocols across the data lifecycle.  

• Align with best‑in‑class security frameworks such as HITRUST.  

Harmony Healthcare IT: Supporting Data Management Across Systems

One of the best ways to support data lifecycle management is through application rationalization. This generally includes extracting data from applications, such as EHRs, ERPs, and other legacy systems and converting it to a new go-forward application. Whether you are implementing a new system across your enterprise or acquiring facilities that need to brought onto your go-forward platforms, Harmony Healthcare IT offers data services and expertise to tackle these initiatives through its comprehensive HealthData Platform^™.

The data that does not get migrated to the new application can then be consolidated and retained in an active archive, like HealthData Archiver^®, that enables health systems to meet security and compliance requirements while providing easy access to legacy patient, employee or business records via Single Sign-Om from the go-forward EHR.

• 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 pulling from HIPAA/HITECH, ISO27001, NIST SP 800-53, COBIT, and PCI DSS security standards. We encrypt data at rest and in-transit, and audit user activity and internal threats with LDAP and auditing tool integration.
• The archive’s easy-to-use features include release of information workflows, Single Sign-On, integrated clinical views, revenue cycle features, search capabilities, and workflow improvements.

Just as healthcare continues to evolve, our solutions do, too. We are committed to being a partner that overcomes barriers to help you solve today’s healthcare challenges.