Data Management with Harmony Health IT's Shannon Larkin

Aneel chats with Shannon Larkin Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Harmony Healthcare IT, a data management firm that migrates and archives patient, employee, and business records for healthcare organizations. Larkin notes that a single patient generates close to 80 megabytes in imaging electronic medical record data, which is increasing exponentially. Most hospitals have about 10 electronic medical record systems in place. Hospitals need to figure out how to integrate their legacy data with this burgeoning additional data, and this involves more than just cold storage, according to Larkin. Health information management teams that are fulfilling release of information requests and need to access that information every day. Clinicians often need to access historical information to treat the patients in real time, adds Larkin She notes that financial information is now being increasingly integrated into a single archival system. It's very important for hospitals to put a legacy data management strategy system in place to achieve top-level interoperability, Larkin notes. This episode is sponsored by Harmony Healthcare IT, harmonyhit.com .