EMR data archival & decommissioning

Retire the system. Keep all the data.

When a hospital sunsets a legacy EMR, the record still has to live on — complete, accurate, and accessible. Polaris performs complete data extractions for archival, capturing both the discrete data and the non-discrete documents, and we offer our own archive application to store and serve that data for the long term.

Moving data from live EMRs into the archive
SOURCE EMR SYSTEMS POLARIS EXTRACTION ARCHIVE APPLICATION EMR Epic EMR Allscripts EMR MEDITECH & more Complete Extraction Discrete data + Non-discrete documents Polaris Archive Archive Application Secure long-term storage
Complete by definition

Discrete and non-discrete — nothing left behind.

A real archive isn't just the database tables. It's the documents, images, and signed records too. Polaris captures both, so the retired system can be switched off with full confidence.

Discrete data

The structured record — extracted, mapped, and kept queryable in the archive.

  • Demographics, encounters & visits
  • Charges, payments & claims
  • Labs, medications & diagnoses
  • Coded clinical & financial fields

Non-discrete documents

The unstructured record — captured and linked back to the right patient.

  • Scanned charts & signed forms
  • PDFs, faxes & correspondence
  • Reports & clinical images
  • Indexed and patient-linked
Our archive application

A place for the data to live.

Extraction is only half the job. Polaris offers an archive application that stores the retired data and makes it usable — so staff can still find a patient, pull a document, or answer an audit long after the source EMR is gone.

And where a client prefers a third-party archive, we deliver clean, complete data into the platform they already use — but our own application means you don't have to look elsewhere.

Archive application — what it does
Web-based accessSearch by patientRetrieve documentsRole-based securityRetention policiesRelease of informationAudit loggingDiscrete + documents

One secure, searchable home for the records of every system you've retired.

Why archive with Polaris

Decommission with confidence.

Cut legacy costs

Shut down old EMRs and the licenses, servers, and support contracts that come with them.

Stay compliant

Meet retention requirements with defensible, complete, auditable archived records.

Keep access

Clinicians and billing staff can still find and retrieve the full record when they need it.

Proven at scale

The extraction engine behind leading archives.

We've delivered complete archival extractions directly for hospital clients and as the partner behind major archive vendors — clean, complete data, in the formats their platforms expect.

The Polaris archive application
Web-based accessSearch by patientRetention & audit

Whether the data lands in our archive application or a third-party platform, the standard is the same: complete and defensible.

Planning a decommission?

Let's get that legacy system safely archived.

Tell us which system you're retiring and your retention needs — we'll scope the complete extraction and the archive that holds it.

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