A medical practitioner would retire. Thousands of dust-gathering paper records would sit in the good doctor’s basement, eventually to be trashed while patients start afresh with new doctors, losing decades of information. This rarely happens anymore, but when hospitals and health systems replace legacy applications nowadays—often after an acquisition—old data still might not be used the way it could be. Plus, organizations are often stuck paying maintenance fees for software they rarely use.
IT leaders sometimes overlook the importance of an enterprise archiving strategy. Converting patient data to PDF is too common a shortcut, according to Jim Jacobs, CEO of MediQuant. That method of archiving comes at a price – one that can squander the value of precious patient data. The MediQuant DataArk product rescues data as part of an “active archive” making the data available for secondary use. In addition to offering providers the efficiency of “one patient, one record,” the active archive can provide new insights through analytics and AI that are more challenging to do when data is stuck in a non-discrete format, such as PDF or images.
Watch this video to understand the value of archiving for both immediate clinical workflows as well as for modern data crunching, and how the field has evolved since MediQuant was founded in 1999. In addition to data conversion and archiving, MediQuant can help health care systems prioritize the order of decommissioning systems through application rationalization—taking into account priorities such as highest ROI and highest risk. Compliance, risk, interoperability, and integrating ambulatory care with hospitals are all considered.
Learn more about MediQuant: https://www.mediquant.com/
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