When your organization decides to convert to a new EMR, the problems it faces extend beyond having to put the right technical architecture in place. Deciding which data to migrate and how much data to migrate from the previous EMR poses additional challenges, and they’re not trivial.
On the one hand, moving over all of your data is expensive (and probably not necessary). On the other, if you migrate too little data, clinicians won’t have an adequate patient history to work from, and what’s more, may not be in compliance with legal requirements.
