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Hospitals are required to preserve medical and financial records. The
ability to access these valuable archives is vital. Because of the
possibility of lost information due to physical damage, deterioration,
media contamination, and obsolete or incompatible equipment, it seems
only logical to find a way to solve these problems. The solution is to
convert your obsolete formats to current technology.
Reasons for keeping old data
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Legal Mandates
- State and Federal regulations provide severe penalties for failure
to preserve certain information (ex. HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, Gramm
Leach Bliley)
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Historical Research
- Business analysts need long-term information to evaluate company
or industry trends.
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Electronic Evidence
- Companies need to deliver historical computer data as part of
their defense or in response to the discovery process. Pro-actively
defending that data now can save immeasurable grief in the future.
Reasons to convert old data
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Improve archival quality
- Old media eventually degrades physically, chemically, and
magnetically - even under the best conditions.
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Reduce physical storage space
- For example, you could convert roughly 7000 tapes to as few as 35
CDs! (Your actual results will vary depending on format and data.)
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Eliminate unproductive work
- Down-sizing or job-hopping programmers can lead to undocumented
programs and files that are undecipherable.
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Remove uncertainty about original formats
- Every piece of media that we convert is tested to ensure that the
data exists and is usable in the required format.
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Lower maintenance costs associated with obsolete hardware
- Inevitably, you’ll need to migrate to new computers, software, or
media which renders older electronic records incompatible or
unusable. Converting means making that data available when you need
it.
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Preserve the integrity of data
- Fragile storage media can cause valuable records to "decay" on the
shelf
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Provide Substantial Cost Savings
- Money can be saved in terms of employee time and effort, storage
fees at vaulting companies, increased costs of purchasing or
restoring obsolete data, etc.
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HospITech can convert or regenerate virtually any type of media
including tapes, disks, and CDs with bit for bit accuracy. If you
currently have paper records, we can scan these existing archives into a
safer, more reliable format. Our library contains thousands of
formats.
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Tape
Conversion -
9-track reels,
3480, 3490, 3490E, DLT, 4mm, 8mm, QIC (full and mini) are among the
physical media we support. Logical structures include all flavors of
IBM and ANSI standard files, including fixed and variable length
records, spanned records and other variations that are troublesome
to other services. We also convert many other proprietary "legacy"
formats, including a variety of Wang, DEC, Data General, Unix,
PDP-11, Atex, Honeywell and many others.
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Disk
Conversion -
8", 5.25" and
3.5" diskettes in a dizzying array of formats; ZIP, JAZZ, Syquest,
CD, CD-R and an increasing variety of M/O types.
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Legacy System Migration
- (e.g.- Wang VS, DEC VAX, etc.) - unmatched speed and efficiency in
converting large volumes of word processing, database, imaging and
other data types;
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Scanning, OCR, Acrobat PDF creation,
macro and template design, and document management migration are
among the many additional services which our staff can provide.
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Wang
Conversion
- These PC-based
programs are used to convert from a wide variety of legacy disk and
tape file formats such as Wang VS (WP, WP+, Database, Image), DEC
PDP-11 and VAX Word-11, IBM ATMS/ATS, IBM DCF/Script, ATEX, Data
General CEO, WordMarc and WordPerfect, Texas Instruments, FourPhase,
Honeywell and many others.
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