Case Study: Parkview Health achieves reliable archiving and a long-term legacy data strategy with Harmony Healthcare IT

A Change in Vendors Gets Archiving Back on Track And Puts a Long-term Strategy in Place

Parkview Health, a not‑for‑profit regional health system with nine hospitals and more than 9,700 employees, needed to preserve and access legacy patient data after migrating to a single Epic EHR. An initial archiving vendor failed to meet Parkview’s timeline and quality expectations, so Parkview turned to Harmony Healthcare IT for archival services (including their HealthData Archiver® platform) and to establish a standard, long‑term archiving strategy.

Harmony Healthcare IT assessed Parkview’s disparate data stores, executed the first archive project successfully, and recommended consolidation of remaining legacy systems into a single, vendor‑neutral archive. The Harmony solution eliminated legacy support costs, ensured HIPAA‑compliant retention and easy access to full historical records, could be virtualized or cloud‑hosted, and delivered a return on investment in about 18 months.

Parkview Health

Rick Miller

Director of Corporate Solutions