The best way to understand the condition of your data, the number of studies and the strategy for resolving issues found within your data is to perform a data migration assessment, often called a pre-migration assessment.

Many customers contract the assessment through their PACS company or with Acuo directly to perform the assessment well in advance of the planned migration. Determining an accurate number of studies is critical for determining the budget for the migration, including but not limited to:

• RIS support for data cleansing
• Legacy PACS vendor support
• Internal staffing needs
• Storage requirements on the new archiving system or PACS

It also helps ensure the proper sizing for the hardware, network, and VPN is deployed for the migration. The data migration assessment provides detailed patient metadata information that allows you to identify problematic data sets. These problems can be corrected manually and/or automatically during the migration using Acuo's data cleansing tools. Custom reports can also be run, including a report showing the number of studies with no accession number, missing MRN's and other issues. This service can be provided remotely in only a few days with the proper IT support.

Please contact Acuo Sales for more information.