MediQuant Expands Enterprise Archiving Platform to Help Health Systems Optimize Applications and Activate Legacy Clinical Data

LAS VEGAS — HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition — Booth #2856 — March 10, 2026 — MediQuant, a leading healthcare application lifecycle and data management solutions provider and creators of DataArk, today announced expanded capabilities across its enterprise archiving platform designed to help healthcare organizations reduce application sprawl and make archived clinical data more accessible and actionable.

Healthcare CIOs are under pressure to do more with existing systems as budgets tighten and operational risk increases. At the same time, health systems continue to retain vast amounts of legacy data for compliance, yet clinicians often struggle to quickly locate the historical details that matter in the moment.

“Health systems don’t have a data retention problem. They have a data usability problem,” said Jim Jacobs, President and CEO of MediQuant. “CIOs are being asked to lower risk, reduce technology footprint, and still ensure clinicians have access to meaningful historical context. With new capabilities added to our archiving platform, our focus is simple: make archived data useful for IT leaders managing portfolios and for clinicians delivering care.”

Introducing Clinical Summaries: Clinical Data at Clinician Fingertips

Recent market research conducted by Sage Growth Partners (November 2025) found strong demand among hospital and health system executives to make archived and legacy data more actionable, particularly by surfacing relevant clinical history in summary form to reduce duplication and time spent searching across fragmented systems. In response, MediQuant is introducing clinical summaries within DataArk, consolidating key patient history from archived and legacy EHR datasets into a concise, clinician-friendly view.

MediQuant’s clinical summaries bring forward high-value historical context including vitals, medications, procedures, and device information, without requiring clinicians to manually navigate legacy charts. The capability standardizes and structures data across disparate EHR environments – aligning variations such as “BP,” “blood pressure,” and “systolic” – to present a consistent, clinician-friendly view. MediQuant is also exploring expanded use of AI to further enhance summaries over time, including drawing insights from non-discrete data and unstructured clinical documentation, while intentionally avoiding clinical decision support or diagnostic functionality.

Over time, MediQuant plans to advance beyond clinician-facing summaries toward role-based views tailored to workflows such as coding, patient accounting, and registration, as well as specialty-specific summaries designed for areas such as cardiology and gastroenterology. These enhancements will further extend the value of archived data across clinical and administrative functions throughout the enterprise.

Improved Imaging Workflow for Precision and Speed with DICOM Viewer

Healthcare organizations frequently archive DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) images, but access is often separate from the clinical moment when those images matter most. With the introduction of an embedded DICOM viewer within DataArk, archived imaging becomes part of the patient story again, not a secondary system to navigate. Studies are presented the way clinicians expect to see them: grouped by encounter, with all associated single-frame and multi-frame images available within the same view. Clinicians can now view studies or cines grouped by encounter, scroll through series, toggle between images using thumbnails, zoom in and pan as needed.

In addition to embedded DICOM viewing, MediQuant is adding flexible storage tiers for imaging that reduce long-term infrastructure costs while preserving timely access to critical clinical information. Frequently referenced or more recent studies will remain immediately available from the patient’s archived record, while older studies can be restored on demand from a lower-cost deep archive.

ApplicationArk Enhances Portfolio Visibility and Rationalization

MediQuant also announced expanded capabilities within ApplicationArk, its application portfolio intelligence solution that helps CIOs inventory, assess, and optimize their technology footprint.

Healthcare IT leaders consistently cite the need for a centralized, unified view of applications – including active systems, archived systems, and business-managed tools – to reduce redundancy, mitigate cyber risk, and better manage portfolio complexity. Many organizations are seeking to move beyond spreadsheet-based rationalization exercises toward sustainable, system-driven portfolio management programs.

ApplicationArk enables organizations to assess overlap, identify unsupported or underutilized systems, analyze risk exposure, and uncover waste across the enterprise, delivering a more accurate understanding of total cost of ownership. Unlike traditional IT asset management tools that focus primarily on licensing, ApplicationArk factors in broader cost drivers such as staffing resources, support effort, and operational dependencies, helping organizations identify meaningful savings opportunities and build a long-term application management strategy.

“Application rationalization is no longer just an operational exercise or a cost-cutting initiative, it’s a strategic imperative that belongs at the boardroom table,” said Jacobs. “Healthcare organizations must reimagine rationalization as a lever for transformation. By taking a disciplined, data-driven approach, CIOs can not only reduce risk and reclaim capital but also create the capacity to fund innovation and drive measurable value.”

New dashboard enhancements provide greater transparency into archived data activity and access patterns, helping IT leaders evaluate whether they are truly optimizing their archive environments.

“CIOs are being asked to manage tighter budgets while reducing cyber risk and rationalizing complex application environments,” said Mike McGuire, Senior Vice President Product Strategy, MediQuant. “ApplicationArk provides an operational framework to uncover waste, optimize spend, and manage the full application lifecycle effectively, while DataArk ensures that once systems are decommissioned, the retained data remains visible, governed, and usable.”

A Unified Lifecycle Approach

Together, ApplicationArk and DataArk support a broader enterprise objective: managing the full lifecycle of applications and data – from active portfolio management through archival optimization and clinical usability.

MediQuant is showcasing these expanded capabilities, including demonstrations and roadmap discussions, at HIMSS26, Booth #2856.