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Practice Management Software (PMS) is a must-have the of the modern healthcare clinic.Regardless of whether a clinic is moving from the traditional paper-based client notes to a PMS or changing the PMS, they use; like any technology change these... Read more

Before you begin transferring data, take some time to determine exactly what data to transfer and what systems it affects. Have you developed a map of the data types to be migrated? Read more

Your next step in the planning process is to figure out how to transfer data. Test your hypotheses early and often during this stage. Corruption and loss of data are two of the biggest risks in any migration project. Read more

Whether it’s duplicates, bad links or outdated formats, most data sets have at least a few issues. Clean up your data before you transfer it; this will cut down on the amount of data you’ll need to transfer, as... Read more

Often overlooked is the issue of data protection. When you take on a data migration project, expect that many stakeholders will have concerns about security. Read more

Getting your team to buy into a data migration project isn’t always easy. Neither practitioners nor administrative users always understand all the benefits of migrating to a new PMS because they do have access to nor understand the big... Read more

Migrating between PMS is rarely a simple switch from one to another at a given point in time, unless you have little or no data in the old PMS the process will be more of a transition with various... Read more

Decommissioning the old PMS, minimising access to a few power users or disabling access/connectivity altogether is a must do for a successful migration. Read more