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Charles Mccarville's avatar

Whoever wrote this was not close to the IT Dept:

"Extracting data prior to 2019 from our legacy system would require writing sequel codes and the creation of a new record”

It is SQL - Structured Query Language, not “sequel”.

“A new record” is just another line in a database that may already contain millions of records and so is gibberish in this context.

A small clue that the person writing this either had no idea about what was needed to produce the data requested, or was making up an excuse.

If in fact a SQL statement could have produced the data, then the database in fact exists. For a simple data extract, the statement may be very simple, like “select from (database) where...”.

They are either very incompetent or are deliberately putting you off.

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monyka's avatar

Yeah as Mr Mccarville states the not able to access data is pure 10000% BS. Someone with passcode to legacy server will have access. They do not delete. I still have access to a previous eEMR at one of my rehab places even though we've been to new EMR for >2 years. Can still run reports from that time. They don't have to "write new code" but simply find IT data person with access to legacy server-that is it.

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