Expanded platform gives healthcare organizations greater visibility into legacy data and a clearer path to aligning it with retention policy throughout its lifecycle
INDEPENDENCE, OH / ACCESS Newswire / November 4, 2026 / MediQuant, a leader in healthcare data archiving and data lifecycle management, is introducing the next generation of its DataArk® platform, expanding traditional archiving capabilities to help health systems better manage the cost, risk and complexity of data throughout its lifecycle.
The enhanced platform gives healthcare organizations greater visibility into what legacy data they retain, how old it is, how it is used and what it costs to maintain. That visibility helps IT, finance and compliance teams see how their data measures up against retention policies, so they can make more informed decisions about retention, storage and disposition.
Every health system already has retention policies. What many lack is a practical way to see how their data is managed against them. As organizations retire aging applications and modernize their technology environments, they must still preserve critical clinical, financial and operational data for regulatory compliance, audits and patient care. Without clear visibility into the data they hold, applying retention policies consistently across growing data environments gets harder, and storage costs, security risks and operational complexity keep mounting.
“Not all data is created equal, yet many organizations still store it as if it were,” said Jim Jacobs, President and CEO of MediQuant. “Health systems are under significant margin pressure while storage and software costs continue to rise. The question is no longer simply whether data can be retained, but whether it is being kept in the right place, at the right cost, for the right reasons.”
Moving Beyond the Archive
The next-generation platform brings together complementary capabilities to help healthcare organizations manage and leverage legacy data more strategically:
- Lifecycle visibility and retention policy alignment. Health systems gain a clearer understanding of what legacy data they retain, how old it is, how it is used and what it costs, enabling them to evaluate that information against established retention policies. The enhanced platform supports this capability by providing IT, finance and compliance teams with a centralized view of applications and archived datasets.
- Secure, ongoing access to legacy data. Clinicians, health information management and revenue cycle teams can continue accessing archived clinical, financial and operational information without maintaining the legacy applications from which it originated. DataArk enables this by providing secure, ongoing access to archived data after source systems are retired.
- AI-Ready Data: Once legacy data has been rationalized, extracted and archived, it is also structured and indexed in a way that extends its usefulness well beyond compliance and audit response. This positions health systems to apply analytics, natural language processing and other AI-enabled tools to clinical, financial and operational records that would otherwise sit inaccessible in a retired system, turning stored data into an asset organizations can act on rather than simply retain.
Together, these capabilities support a more comprehensive approach to data lifecycle management, from application rationalization and decommissioning through data extraction, migration, and archiving, all the way to data that is structured and ready to support AI-enabled analytics and insight, governed by organizational policies and supported by audit trails.
“An archive shouldn’t be the end of the journey. It’s a stop along the way,” said Mike McGuire, Senior Vice President of Product Strategy at MediQuant. “Our goal is to help health systems make legacy data environments leaner because there’s less to store, safer because there’s less to secure, and more valuable because the information they retain is structured, accessible and ready to support the analytics and AI-enabled tools health systems are investing in now.
The launch builds on a broader industry shift toward data lifecycle management. During a September executive advisory session hosted by MediQuant and Becker’s Healthcare, health system technology leaders emphasized the need to move beyond traditional retention strategies and address more fundamental questions about what data should remain, where it should reside and when it can be responsibly removed. Read more about the discussion and its implications for health systems.
To learn more about the next-generation DataArk platform and MediQuant’s approach to data lifecycle management, request a discovery session or explore MediQuant’s lifecycle management capabilities.
About MediQuant
MediQuant is the leader in application rationalization, legacy system decommissioning, and enterprise active archiving for hospitals and health systems. Its DataArk platform helps health systems retire outdated clinical, financial, and administrative applications while preserving compliant, accessible data. With more than 25 years of experience managing complex, large-scale data environments, MediQuant enables health systems to reduce cost, mitigate cyber and compliance risk, and prepare their data for the next generation of analytics and AI. For more information, visit MediQuant.com.
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SOURCE: MediQuant
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