A List of Key Insights for EHR Data Conversion

Healthcare Scene sat down with Sean West, VP of Data Conversion at HealthPort, to discuss EHR data conversion. EHR data conversion is quickly becoming a hot topic for many organizations that rushed their initial EHR selection and implementation. In our video discussion embedded below, Sean West offers a number of key insights including the following:

  • Convert the Data Close to the EHR Conversion
  • Ensure You Have Enough Time to Make the Conversion
  • Consider How Much Data Needs to Be Converted
  • Look at the Impact on Performance of Converting All EHR Data
  • Evaluate Your Legacy EHR Vendors Willingness to Work with You on Data Conversion

Check out the following video for all the details:

We also asked Sean West about when an organization would want to consider a vendor neutral archive for their EHR. While the vendor neutral archive is incredibly popular with PACS systems, we’re just now starting to see the idea crop up with EHR data. In the following video, Sean West provides some good insight into when an organization might want to consider a vendor neutral archive for their EHR data.

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John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

   

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