Greenway Health EHR Data Migration and Archiving

Greenway Health offers a suite of electronic health record (EHR), practice management and revenue cycle management solutions specifically for ambulatory healthcare practices. The company has experienced some challenges over the last few years with legal issues and a product sunsetting.

Legal and product issues are two reasons why healthcare providers may decide to replace an electronic health record (EHR) like Greenway Health.

When there is a decision to upgrade or replace an EHR, legacy data still needs to be retained to meet compliance and legal requirements. When there is a decision to move away from an EHR, Harmony Healthcare IT can provide data extraction, migration, and archiving services.

Our Approach to Greenway Health Data Extraction and Migration

Our team extracts patient, financial and operational data from more than 550 EHR and ERP software brands including Greenway Health. Extraction is a vital first step that enables data for movement to its new long-term location such as an EHR, active archive or cold storage.

Our process for a successful health data extraction includes the following steps:

Discovery Call

Schedule a Discovery Call to discuss the scope and delivery capabilities of the legacy EHR vendor. Determine if the data is hosted or on-prem as this will determine next steps for the deconversion (export) specification process.

Best methods

Consider the best methods for data extraction which could include an application programming interface (API) or a natural language processing (NLP) that can be helpful for unstructured data.

Overall plan

Create an overall plan for all structured and unstructured data housed in an EHR.

Talk to the Experts

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.

Our Approach to Greenway Health Data Archiving

HealthData Archiver® is designed to keep your legacy data secure, accessible, usable, interoperable, compliant, and releasable. The active archive is part of our integrated HealthData Platform™ that includes a suite of legacy data management solutions for patient, employee and business records.

We have worked with Greenway Health’s suite of products including: Greenway Intergy, Primesuite, The Medical Manager and Success.

The process for successful health data archiving includes the following steps:

Migrating Data from Greenway Health to Another System

Your Greenway Health data may need to be moved (aka: migrated) to another EHR or to an active archive.

Our team of experts is ready to help.

The migration process involves a few key steps to map out the data, validate it and make sure the transfer is accurate.

We can help determine if the project calls for data migration, which involves a relatively straightforward process of moving data, or data conversion, which adds an additional step of converting the data to a new format.

Our team has broad and deep experience to help guide the legacy data management strategy to reduce the cost and complexity of the overall health IT landscape.

Challenges and Benefits of Legacy Data Management

With health data volumes tripling every three years, there are a lot of moving pieces to keep track of and manage data at health care providers of all sizes.

Legacy data management challenges and associated benefits from data archiving include:

Cybersecurity

  • Data Challenge: EMRs now account for nearly 10 percent of cyberattacks.
  • Archive Benefit: Decommissioning legacy systems and securing the required data in an active archive supports an improved cyber posture. HITRUST CSF certification validates that the highest level of security controls is followed.

Accessibility and Workflow

  • Data Challenge: Physicians report spending more time with the EHR than with their patients. Looking for important medical information spread out among different systems is time consuming and inefficient.
  • Archive Benefit: Single Sign-On links the active archive to the go-forward EHR. This integration supports improved access to the complete patient record.

Compliance

  • Data Challenge: There are hundreds of ever-changing compliance regulations in healthcare. Federal and state laws constantly change along with interpretation of those laws.
  • Archive Benefit: HealthData Archiver® supports record retention compliance at all levels (state, federal and specialty), as well as provides extra features like audit trails and break the glass.

Cost

  • Data Challenge: More than half of CIOs report that increasing operational efficiencies is that the top of their to-do list. Cost reduction is a leading concern.
  • Archive Benefit: Cost savings can be obtained by migrating legacy data to an active archive and decommissioning financial, clinical and business applications.Hard cost savings comes from removing application maintenance, support and server/hardware costs. Soft cost savings comes from IT overhead, IT labor, workflow, and litigation time savings. The average time to realize a return is within 18-24 months.

Interoperability

  • Data Challenge: Legacy applications often cannot support the data sharing requirements such as the 21st Century Cures Act. Older systems were not built to communicate with each other, which can cause gaps in data availability.
  • Archive Benefit: HealthData Archiver® is designed to support data sharing across the healthcare continuum. Harmony Healthcare IT continues to innovate solutions to improve interoperability options such as clinical image exchange and enhanced security with multi-factor authentication.

Why choose Harmony Healthcare IT?

It is important to choose a legacy data management partner that knows the business and is a good fit with your team and organization. Harmony Healthcare IT is a first-to-market innovator with numerous archive features AND earned all A’s from customers in the KLAS Data Archiving 2024 report which measured the six customer experience pillars of culture, loyalty, operations, product, relationship and value.

Key Resources

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The Data Dilemma

Managing Legacy Data for Healthcare Mergers and Acquisitions

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EMRs Under Attack

Legacy Software Ranks as No. 1 Cybersecurity “Bad Practice”

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Transitioning of EHR or EMR systems

10 Things to Consider When Switching EMR or EHR Platforms

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Our team has experience with Greenway Health products. We can help consult, extract, migrate and archive your Greenway Health data with 100% integrity.