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📚 Medical Data Detective: Understanding Healthcare Archiving & eDiscovery 🔍
The modern healthcare facility—from small clinics to massive hospitals—generates an enormous, sensitive data trail every day. Archiving and eDiscovery are the essential tools used to manage this data over the long term, ensuring compliance and providing a clear record when legal issues arise.
The Basics: Two Sides of Data Management
Archiving: This is the process of securely storing inactive or less-frequently accessed data (like old patient records, billing data, and past communications) in a highly secure, cost-effective system.
Goal: Preserve required historical data for the long term and shut down expensive, outdated legacy systems (like old Electronic Medical Record software).
eDiscovery (Electronic Discovery): This is the legal process of identifying, preserving, collecting, and producing electronically stored information (ESI)—which could be anything from emails and text messages to patient files and radiology images—for use as evidence in a legal case or…