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YOUR Patient Data

It’s YOUR Data…

  • By Matt Hoenig

Is your legacy EMR vendor holding your data hostage? If so, you’ll likely find yourself amongst the company of countless doctors who are also struggling to free their patient data from the clutches of legacy EMR software. For most healthcare practices, the concept of “who owns my data” is rarely considered until the organization finds itself in one of the following situations:

  1. The Legacy EMR Vendor Is Going Out Of Business
  2. It’s Time To Switch To A New EMR Vendor
  3. The Practice Decides To Merge With Another Practice
  4. A Need To Meet Medicare Program Requirements
  5. The Physicians Are Getting Ready For Retirement

In any of those scenarios, the healthcare organization is legally required to maintain accurate, complete records of patient data. It’s no secret that physicians’ usage of EMR systems has grown tremendously over the last several years. But with such a substantive reliance on secure and safe EMR software, medical practices are left at the mercy of unreliable, expensive, and hard to reach legacy EMR vendors. It’s about time the healthcare industry solved this problem.

Taking Back YOUR Patient Data

Making the commitment to upgrade and move to a new EMR software means a number of things for practices both large and small. Giving practices the ability to continue delivering quality care to their patients without practice interruption and loss of productivity is paramount. Productivity loss comes from potential data barriers. For instance, extracting and/or exporting legacy data or cleaning and transforming the data and imputing it into the new system are some notable barriers that often give healthcare organizations pause in moving forward with new EMR software. The reality is, however, that these seemingly headache-inducing challenges can all be circumvented with the right EMR data migration company.

There are a few primary concerns to account for when determining how and when to move forward with an EMR data migration:

  1. Proper Data Extraction
  2. Data Migration Accuracy
  3. Exporting Encounter Notes
  4. HIPAA Compliancy
  5. The Ability To Archive Historical EMR Data

Getting your data out of the legacy EMR vendor safely and accurately is only the first step. The next hurdle is ensuring that the patient records are migrated to the new system correctly, all while remaining HIPAA compliant. In addition, you want to confirm that you will be able to get a PDF version of each clinical note, which is vital information to have in the new system. Finally, it is critical for practices to protect their patients’ historical EMR data in an archive. In conducting all of these steps, the EMR data will be migrated to the new system, standardized in a database, and accessed easily. All critical clinical data that cannot be migrated will go into the archive for reference. As a result, you will be able to shut down the old EMR system, save money, guarantee a HIPAA compliant solution that meets state regulations, and keep the practice running the whole time to continue delivering quality care to patients.

Standing Up To Legacy EMR Vendors

Switching EMR systems does not have to be a traumatic experience for healthcare organizations. If your legacy EMR vendor is holding your patient data hostage, there truly is a light at the end of the tunnel. At MDH Insight, we have a variety of solutions to free your patient data from the clutches of legacy EMR software. We understand how frustrating legacy vendors can be, especially for physicians who are simply too busy to deal with taking back their data. That’s where we come in! Whether you are an individual or a group medical practice, our EMR data migration services will meet your needs and exceed your expectations.

Worried about being able to migrate all of your data? Our EMR Data Archive allows you to store all of your data. So, even if we can’t migrate it to your new EMR software, you can still access it. Are you wondering what to do if you are stuck in a legacy non-cloud based EMR system? Our cloud-based EMR migration solutions are setting the new standard for patient experiences by facilitating the ever important move to the cloud.

Selecting the right company to lead your EMR data migration process is fundamental to keeping your patient data safely in your possession, keeping your patient data accurate, and keeping your patient data HIPAA compliant. Our EMR data extraction and EMR data migration best practices are persistently dedicated to meeting your specific needs in a timely and efficient fashion. MDH Insight understands that the healthcare industry depends on accurate data and when it comes to accurate data: We Deliver.

Contact our EMR data conversion team today to learn more about our offerings or get started today with a free EMR system assessment!

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