All good implementation projects will have a deliverable called “data migration strategy”  from which a plan would then follow. Too often however the strategy is written at too high a level and makes sweeping statements such as "all data will be migrated". This target maybe achievable but at what cost and at what risk? A well thought out strategy that makes sound recommendations is key to a project going live on time and to budget.

We can help achieve this by preparing a migration strategy to meet your specific business requirements. This would be a detailed deliverable, with recommendations, that would cover the following areas:

• how to assess data quality
• a recommended clean and transform process to suit the project
• how to test the migration process
• breadth and depth of data to be migrated
• multiple legacy system implications
• data extraction considerations
• timings and resource requirements
• cutover considerations
• duplicate patient considerations
• numbering strategy considerations
• change management of the target system
• phased implementation considerations,
• dealing with ongoing daily changes to the legacy system
• migrating outpatients and wait lists to ensure business and reporting continuity
• non migrated data consideration

The recommendations from the strategy can then be agreed by senior management and used to shape the implementation plan.