Best Practices Guide on ‘Managing the Cost, Complexity, and Risk of Legacy Application Retirement and Replacement’

Because legacy systems often contain information that is inaccurate, outdated, incomplete or incompatible with current systems, simply dumping old data into a new system is not a viable solution. Nor is it sustainable to maintain duplicate or outdated legacy systems, due to the inherent cost and risk. With that in mind, this guide examines:

• Key drivers of health IT application retirement
• The direct impact these data issues can have on patient health
• How to best integrate legacy data into your systems.