Is your healthcare organization in the midst of EHR replacement? A merger or acquisition? Or, maybe it’s focused on consolidating outdated legacy EHR systems?
If you’re creating a system decommissioning plan, the data management vendors you choose to work with are as important as the archiving product being offered. It’s necessary to evaluate both.
Here’s a list of absolute essentials to help assess a potential data archiving partner before making a final selection.
10 QUALITIES TO LOOK FOR IN A LEGACY DATA ARCHIVING VENDOR
- Exhibits a strong reputation and breadth of experience working with data from a variety of systems
- Focused primarily on healthcare and able to provide references from similar organizations and projects
- Does not have a history of litigation or data breach
- Responsive and easy to do business with
- Routinely updates product to ensure high level security of records for the duration of the retention period
- Able to scale with client needs, such as a having a strategy for enabling compliance with the 21st Century Cures Act
- Does minimal to no outsourcing for its extract/transform/load (ETL) work
- Offers an in-depth legacy system discovery and proposal process that limits future change orders
- Offers a systematic on-boarding process and project management methodology
- Conducts frequent quality checkpoints from extraction through validation to archive deployment
Ready to get your legacy data management plan on track with a partner who meets all these criteria? We’re ready to chat.
Editor’s Note: This blog has been updated from the original post on April 3, 2019.
