Case Study: AZ Alma preserves vital patient data and reduces migration costs with Docbyte Application Retirement

Hospital Saves Time & Budget by assuring system-independent conservation of vital patient information

The customer, AZ Alma, a private consolidated hospital, faced the challenge of ensuring its vital patient information remained accessible for the long term, far beyond the limited lifespan of its IT systems. Its existing applications were being phased out, risking data loss and creating a constant, costly cycle of migration. To solve this, AZ Alma partnered with vendor Docbyte to implement their Application Retirement solution and an Electronic Patient Archive (EPA).

Docbyte's solution separated the data from the obsolete applications and consolidated it into a central, system-independent archive. This approach ensured all historical and new patient records would remain usably available without future data migrations. As a result, AZ Alma achieved significant long-term time and budget savings by eliminating endless conversion projects and preventing inevitable data and quality loss, making it a future-oriented strategic decision for the hospital.

AZ Alma

Fritz Defloor

Director of ICT and Administration