In fact, according to reports issued by KLAS, 40% of physician offices and 50% of large hospitals have changed or are in the process of changing EHR vendors.These changes are often necessary to meet the needs of patients and physicians, but they also come with their own set of challenges.

Healthcare organizations create terabytes of patient data every year in the form of clinical records, lab results, imaging and financial records.

State laws and the federal Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) require providers to store all of this information for years and sometimes even decades.An AfterthoughtAs a result, data archiving should be a key component of any healthcare organization’s overall IT plan, but this isn’t always the case.

As it turns out, we’re not the only ones noticing this trend.Nathan Evans, the research manager for KLAS research.

Nathan is responsible for the overseeing of research and reporting for legacy data archiving at KLAS.

We had the pleasure of hosting him on our most recent webinar where he confirmed that this is a common issue.Listen to Nathan speak about KLAS’s research findings on EHR data archival here.He informed us that the neglect of attention to legacy data is a topic KLAS hopes to provide feedback on when they publish their 2019 KLAS Data Archiving Report.