As technology evolves in healthcare, Directors of IS are routinely replacing old technology with new. With the cost and complexity of data conversions, complete patient records from a legacy application are not typically ported over to the new software. This can result in a collection of read-only systems that carry with them a price tag for service and support, a burden of keeping software patched and users trained as well as a technical risk as infrastructures age. “We needed to comply with medical record retention requirements,” says Tara Williams, MSN, RN and Director of Information Systems at Indiana University Health Bedford Hospital, “but, we knew that our costs would be cut significantly if we archived versus keeping inactive systems up and running long-term.” When e

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