Healthcare organizations house enormous amounts of data – amounts that have been multiplied many times over since the widespread adoption of electronic health records (EHR) systems over the last decade. What few of these groups know how to reckon with, though, is how to best manage data that’s no longer in use – particularly data from systems the organization has since retired. What’s the best way to handle this information? When data is no longer in active use, the best thing that healthcare systems can do it archive it. Archiving data is different from backing it up for continuity purposes. While systems may find ways to use this data again later on, data archiving is premised on the idea that the system the data is connected to no longer exists. This can apply to any of the major data management systems used in healthcare , from EHRs to medical imaging platforms and opioid use monitoring platforms. As such systems are decommissioned, the data should be archived. Why Keep Your Data...