Long Term Storage - Archiving

Long-term storage can help improve patient charting management. A patients chart i.e. tracings and documentation etc. are stored in a hierarchal fashion. Patients records are stored and retrieved as multiple pregnancies with multiple visits within each pregnancy .

LMS offers two options, optical platter or hard drive, for patient record long-term storage and retrieval.

Key Features

• Two options are available for long-term data storage, optical “jukebox” or hard drive.
• The optical "jukebox" allows multiple disks to be available for access at a given time, reducing the need to swap disks to bring up a past patient record. This option also allows easy creation of back up copies for off-site storage.
• The hard drive option is useful when permanent medical record retention is being handled by another system.
• Multiple search options for data retrieval:
• Last name
• First name
• Medical record number
• Admission date range
• Patient records can be held or sent directly to archive.
• Display of retrieved records indicates "archived review".
All archived data clearly indicates the patient status: admitted, discharged, on hold.

Key Benefits

• Allows you to compare archived patient visits to current patient status.
• Records are archived automatically according to a pre-defined schedule. You can also choose to delay archiving or to archive a record immediately.
• To clearly distinguish real time data from archived patient data, CALM indicates the status of the patient record when a retrieved record is displayed.