Legacy healthcare systems

Pharmaceutical and healthcare companies need to keep appropriate computer systems that are capable of reading electronic records for as long as those records must be retained. Maintaining a legacy computer system just to read old records can be expensive especially when this strategy might still require transfer to a new system or format at a later date when maintenance becomes impractical. 

If validation is not practical, pharmacentical and healthcare companies shonld consider selecting and replacing legacy software and hardware with equivalent products or replacing the entire compnter system. This may involve rising alternative suppliers. New software or hardware in a... 

Legacy healthcare systems. The healthcare and health insurance systems of today, which are often entrenched and bureaucratic Towers of Babel and yet typically beset by mountains of paper, high rate of medical error, and the challenge of the aging baby boomer population, and internationally polarized between managed healthcare and socialistic philosophy. 

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