Veradigm (formerly Allscripts Healthcare Solutions) rounds out the top 5 of the more than 500 ambulatory EHR vendors in the healthcare market. In 2022, Allscripts sold its hospital and large physician practice business segment that included Sunrise, Paragon, TouchWorks, Opal and dbMotion solutions to N. Harris Computer Corporation, which rebranded them under its Altera Digital Health business unit. The company rebranded with the solutions it kept and now is called Veradigm.
With industry consolidation and shifting, users will decide which EHRs they need to keep or if they will transition to a new system. With either scenario, Harmony Healthcare IT can help manage legacy data.
The legacy Allscripts product offering includes an array of solutions including clinical EHRs, financial/operations, patient engagement, analytics, and technical services. Healthcare providers who need to move legacy data to or from a Veradigm solution need a vendor that can support the extraction, migration, conversion, and integration required.
Focused exclusively on healthcare, Harmony Healthcare IT is an award-winning data management firm with a proven ability to extract, migrate and archive data with 100% integrity.
The Harmony Healthcare IT team brings solid experience with 100+ Allscripts projects to date.
We have an established, standard, repeatable process for data extraction, transformation, and load from a source legacy system to a target go-forward system or archive.
We are deeply familiar with Sunrise Clinical Manager, Paragon, TouchWorks, and the rest of Allscripts’ former solutions. We also have answers to EHR-specific questions, such as: How will we continue to access TouchWorks’ ChartViewer?
Our legacy data management solutions support data migration to and from the former Allscripts solutions and work with server or cloud-based applications.
Data migration, the process of moving data from one system to another, can be a daunting task. Prerequisites for a successful data migration help ensure the project meets the organization’s overall strategy and goals. Big picture first steps include:
Working on more than one hundred Allscripts migrations puts you in good hands with a team that walks the talk. The Harmony Healthcare IT platform includes:
Discrete Data. The Harmony Healthcare IT methodology for legacy data migration into HealthData Archiver™ is to bring any source system data in discretely if that is how it’s available. This allows for advanced search, sorting, filtering, reporting and analytics.
Images and PDFs. These can be migrated to the new system. PDFs can be indexed through optical character recognition and included in advanced search. HealthData Archiver™ includes a graphical user interface for users as well as rich workflows for clinicians, HIM professionals and accounts receivable collectors.
Organized Data Structures. Data is organized by domain, source and type and allows for role-based security access and auditing.
Scalable Solution. The solution is scalable, easily accommodating new data sources over time. Specialized data such as perinatal fetal monitoring strips are accommodated in the solution. HealthData Archiver™ is built to provide a searchable fetal monitoring strip directory organized by patient. And, to connect the strips to the rest of the medical record.
Single Sign-On (SSO). Integrated sign on functionality to the go-forward EHR makes for a secure, cost-effective, long-term legacy data management strategy. With Single Sign-On, users seamlessly authenticate, in patient-context, from most major EHR brands (e.g., Epic, Oracle Cerner, Veradigm, and athenahealth) to HealthData Archiver™. Several other standards are supported.
The steps below are ideally suited for the decommissioning of healthcare applications where both a migration and archival will occur.
The Harmony Healthcare IT team brings solid experience with 100+ Allscripts projects to date. We are deeply familiar with Sunrise Clinical Manager, Paragon, TouchWorks, and the rest of Allscripts’ former solutions. Our legacy data management solutions support data migration to and from the former Allscripts solutions.
In most cases, key clinical data is converted to the new go-forward system. We help with that data conversion and then manage the rest of the data in HealthData PlatformTM.
We support server or cloud-based applications.
We are familiar with the specific questions from Allscripts users such as: How will they continue to access TouchWorks’ ChartViewer?
With the 21st Century Cures Act adding enforceable rules to guide interoperability, integration is as important as ever. Harmony Healthcare IT developers work collaboratively with APIs of leading health IT vendors to ensure the secure exchange or accessibility to data within the healthcare ecosystem.
Single Sign-On. An important feature in the active archive ensures users maintain immediate access to legacy data. With Single Sign-On, users seamlessly authenticate, in patient-context, from most major EMR brands (e.g., Epic®, Cerner®, Veradigm®, Allscripts® and athenahealth®) to HealthData Archiver®. Oauth/OpenID, Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML 2.0) and other standards are supported.
A CIO survey showed top drivers for data archiving are reported as security and cost savings. With 94 percent of organizations with legacy applications in current operations, it is not surprising that more than three quarters (77 percent) of CIOs surveyed list application rationalization as a medium to high priority.
We are a trusted resource you can count on for consulting through implementation. Key benefits with legacy data management include security, cost savings as well as data consolidation and compliance with 21st Century Cures Act.
Whatever system you are planning a move to or from, we can help.
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We can help iron out your unique needs and make sure you are well positioned for the future.
Allscripts EHR archiving is a process of securely storing and managing legacy patient data from Allscripts electronic health record (EHR) systems. Archiving ensures patient data from the Allscripts system stays secure and complies with regulations, while maintaining accessibility to allow for future retrieval of records for historical reference, potential research, or continuity of care. Whether decommissioning or migrating a system, archiving becomes the bridge between past and present, safeguarding important information while paving the way for a fresh start with the new system.
Archiving an Allscripts EMR provides several primary benefits: data consolidation, decreased cost, improved compliance, increased security, enhanced safety, and simplified reporting. As clinicians, health information management (HIM), and legal users continue to need access to legacy records, there is Single Sign-On access through the go-forward EHR and a direct log in to HealthData Archiver™ for optimized legacy data consolidation, searchability, accessibility and workflows. Plus, with Secure Record Delivery capabilities, a patient’s historical record from HealthData Archiver™ can be transmitted to an EHR endpoint, which may include a patient portal.
With its open and scalable architecture, HealthData Archiver™ is built to accommodate data from any system, in any format. The system is more open, offering a simpler transformation and load of extracted source system data. A few examples of data/systems types that can be stored in HealthData Archiver™ include: patient clinical (EHR, laboratory, blood bank, radiology, occupational health, behavioral health, dental, emergency room, perinatal, surgical); patient financial (revenue cycle, accounts receivable, practice management, document management); facility financial (revenue cycle, accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger, capital spending, fixed asset, document management); facility administrative (human resources, payroll, case management, risk management, materials management, document management and device tracking).