Question

A healthcare organization must retain patient imaging records in cloud archive storage for 25 years to meet regulatory requirements. The compliance team is drafting the data retention and archiving policy. Which consideration is MOST critical to ensuring the archived data remains usable and defensible throughout the entire retention period?

Accepted Answer

Ensuring the data format and the technology/keys needed to read it remain accessible and non-obsolete for the full retention duration

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Selecting the lowest-cost cold storage tier to minimize total storage expenditure over 25 years

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Configuring automatic deletion of the records immediately after the 25-year period expires

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Replicating the archive across three geographic regions for maximum availability