A premier provider of information technology consulting services for healthcare facilities, Coastal Healthcare Consulting, Inc. (Coastal), announced today a partnership with a provider of advanced software solutions designed to aid healthcare providers in avoiding the legacy data problems associated with healthcare information system conversions, MediQuant (TM). Coastal and MediQuant will work in this relationship with healthcare providers that are migrating healthcare information systems and want to maintain valuable patient accounting and clinical data in an active archive.

Coastal will provide the consulting and analyst resources necessary to extract the required data from legacy systems during system conversions, and MediQuant will provide its Data Ark (TM) data archive and receivables management system to house the data. This system conversion solution allows healthcare providers to retire legacy healthcare information systems and eliminate support costs associated with those systems while retaining access to clinical and account-level details from the former system. It also helps healthcare providers meet the legal need of managing data for seven years and the financial need of managing the old receivables after the new system is implemented.

Amy Collins, President, Coastal Healthcare Consulting said: "This partnership leverages Coastal's vast experience in working with healthcare providers to implement information systems". "The combined resources of Coastal and MediQuant will provide healthcare information technology departments with a complete turnkey solution to address legacy data during systems conversions. Clients can focus on implementing their new healthcare information systems with the peace of mind, knowing that they will have easy access to account-level data from their former systems and that minimal effort will be required from their IT teams to convert the data."

Tony Paparella, CEO of MediQuant remarked: "With MediQuant's DataArk solution, clients are able to focus on their new systems implementation and quickly retire their legacy systems while still being able to work their own A/R and stay compliant with data retention requirements". "We look forward to working with Coastal to help hospitals significantly reduce support costs for their old legacy systems."