Clinical Archiving

Improve Patient Care Through Strategic Data Management

Clinical Archiving

Clinical archiving helps healthcare organizations improve patient care and optimize business operations by moving data from legacy EHRs to a consolidated repository.

By moving legacy data to a common, secure archive:

Clinicians can easily access historical patient records in one place for a comprehensive view of patient records, enabling improved care.
Health information management staff can respond more timely to Release of Information requests, audits, and litigation events.
IT departments can recoup valuable budget to achieve savings or redirect resources to strategic initiatives.

Is Clinical Archiving Right for You?

Has your organization adopted advanced electronic medical records (EMRs) or electronic health records (EHRs) systems, but are you still using both newer and legacy applications? Does this make it harder for clinicians to access patient information and impact patient care? Do legacy systems still represent a significant portion of your IT budget, preventing you from supporting other strategic initiatives?

Clinical Archiving is the migration of patient data from outdated legacy systems to a single archiving platform that maintains long-term patient records, enables healthcare organizations to comply with regulatory requirements, and allows you to retire legacy clinical applications to reduce costs and maintenance. While Clinical Archiving is designed to reduce the cost of safeguarding and preserving data, our clients also benefit from improved patient outcomes by giving clinicians live access to archived records and giving Healthcare Information Managers tools to easily manage archived data.

Benefits of Clinical Archiving

Clinical Archiving provides a more complete view of patients through easy access to data on legacy applications while reducing the cost of maintenance for older systems and ensuring ongoing compliance with HIPAA, PHI, and other regulatory requirements. It provides greater clinical efficiency and coordination across the continuum of care through access to data anytime, anywhere. On-demand access to all archived patient records, documents and images through one system, including integration with EPIC, gives clinicians a complete view of patient history, diagnosis and treatment when and where they are most needed—at the point of care. System performance also is achieved through periodic archiving of inactive data to reduce the load placed on current production systems.

Clinicians

Access archived patient information at the point of care, directly from the EHR
Organize patient information intuitively to enable easy search and retrieval
Securely share archived documents with all clinicians across the enterprise

Healthcare Information Managers

Easily export or print all or parts of patients’ archived medical information
Easily add single records to a patient’s medical history
Configure and enforce patients’ preferences for privacy
Organize patient data for future data mining to support big data, analytics and population health efforts

Information Technology

Significantly reduce OPEX and CAPEX costs with payback in as few as six months
Recoup capital to fund innovation and health IT investments
Preserve all forms of patient information within an XMLbased, unified archive that conforms to the Open Archival Information System (OAIS)

Revenue Cycle Management

Increase cash flow by providing a customizable interface for pay cycle staff to burn-down outstanding Accounts Receivables
Help revenue cycle staff quickly assess outstanding current balances, out for collection balances, and account insurance information as well as patient account information
Integrate with current EHR and eMPI solutions so that staff can easily work in both current production systems as well as Flatirons Digital Hub