US Patent:
20090106331, Apr 23, 2009
Inventors:
Dmitriy Fridman - Geneva IL, US
Anthony Ricamato - West Chicago IL, US
Basel Hasan Taha - Arlington Heights IL, US
Assignee:
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY - Schenectady NY
International Classification:
G06F 12/16
Abstract:
Certain embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for dynamic, two-stage archiving and/or retrieval of clinical data. Certain embodiments provide a method for dynamic, two-stage clinical data archiving. The method includes copying clinical data from a primary datastore to a staging datastore, wherein non-clinical data is retained at the primary datastore and not passed to the staging datastore. The method further includes copying the clinical data from the staging datastore to an archive datastore. The method also includes deleting the clinical data from the staging datastore after the clinical data has been copied to the archive datastore. In certain embodiments, data may be restored from the archive datastore to the primary datastore via the staging datastore similar to the archiving process described above.