# How should we migrate legacy or paper mental health records into a new system?

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For: Digital health teams | Digital health and technology | Reviewed by Independent clinical reviewer, Registered mental health clinician, Kenya | Last reviewed 8 November 2026

**Answer:** The 2025 Digital Health Regulations address migration of health data from legacy solutions and require stored or archived data to meet the Act. Start with an inventory and data map, decide what must be migrated versus archived, and run a test migration with clinicians checking samples for accuracy, especially risk flags and restricted notes. Keep restricted-access settings intact, reconcile counts, log the process, and securely destroy temporary copies. Treat migration as a DPIA-relevant change.

Sources: Kenya Law: https://new.kenyalaw.org/akn/ke/act/ln/2025/76/eng@2025-04-11 - Kenya Law: https://new.kenyalaw.org/akn/ke/act/ln/2021/263/eng@2022-12-31

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