The concern most mortuaries raise when evaluating new software is what happens to the records already in their current system. That concern is well-founded. A mortuary's historical records are operationally valuable and, in many jurisdictions, legally required to be preserved. CemSites addresses this directly by handling data migration as part of the transition process, moving existing records into the new platform without requiring facility staff to re-enter information by hand.
The migration process covers active cases, historical records, and financial data. CemSites has completed migrations from a wide range of legacy systems and has moved more than 27 million records to date, which gives the process a level of predictability that a facility can plan around. From the first day of operation on the new mortuary software, staff have access to the full record history, not just the cases that opened after the switch. Facilities that want to discuss what migration would look like for their specific system and data volume can raise those questions directly during a CemSites demo.
