Legacy data is just as important as — and no different from — current data, except that the data is stored using languages, platforms and techniques inherited from earlier technology. All healthcare organizations have legacy environments, many quite old. Do you have a legacy system that is not currently in use but retaining the data is critical to your operation?

To manage costs and improve control over your application infrastructure, you need to reduce the total number of systems you support. Yet, HIPAA, state and federal compliance regulations require retention periods of up to thirty years. Until now, retiring legacy applications has meant maintaining records on expensive production servers or difficult-to-access storage devices. As a result, many IT departments actually delay legacy application retirement and continue to maintain multiple copies of data in the production environment long after active usage.

There is a considerable difference between making data viewable online and making data elements searchable; Wilson Interests has created a usable and functioning data resource in the legacy data display tool that is part of the WISEops tier of the WISE™ Management Suite. The web-based tool also allows for printing individual legacy data entries (patient lab results, for example) on demand.

If the demands for the data are infrequent, it can be extracted to CD-ROM with static HTML pages for easy retrieval when necessary.

Let us help you eliminate the costs associated with maintaining legacy applications and find an intelligent way to manage legacy data with easy access. Contact us for a free evaluation of your legacy system data archiving project.