Healthcare organizations need a strategy to evaluate, prioritize and optimize the applications within their enterprise. This includes applications such as electronic health records (EHR), billing and payment systems and the infrastructure needed to support the systems. Application rationalization involves analyzing all the applications to determine the optimal mix of production systems and those that can be decommissioned, with any data that needs to be maintained saved in an archive or other storage option that meets the organization’s guidelines for record retention, access and release.