Medical practices that are planning to get an electronic medical records (EMR) system in the near future will also need to consider whether they will be keeping their existing practice management 
software (EPM). Many factors come into play and we will discuss the pros and cons another time. For the purposes of our discussion, let’s assume you decided to upgrade to a new EPM that comes integrated with the new EMR system.
What do you do with all of the existing patient insurance and demographic data?
Keep it or throw it all away?
First, a little background. It is the year 1998 and businesses around the world are beginning to panic about the impending specter of the Y2K (year 2000) crisis. You remember – all computers will stop working because nobody thought to put the year in four digits instead of ‘19’ followed by two digits. (more…)
