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FEATURED ARTICLES
IMT Magazine - The
Truth About Imaging (Issue 1 - 06)
The Truth About Imaging
By Kurt W. Stevenson -
Director of Records & Information Management - Thacher, Proffitt, & Wood LLP
- NY
For years we have all
heard the term "Paperless Office" which has in turn led the general working
population to believe the primary reason for converting to a digital
environment was to reduce paper.
Although the reduction of
paper is a leading factor when deciding whether or not to convert to
digital, it is by no means the most important reason. I have spent the last
10 years developing world class digital imaging environments at legal firms
across the country. In this article we will discuss what the primary
reasons for converting are, and how to setup a world class imaging
environment in house.
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PART 2 |
PART 3
Simplifying Document Management
Moser
Baer has simplified its document management activities by using ViewWise
from Syntax Soft-Tech. The company’s General Manager, IT, V Muthukumar,
talks to Abhinav Singh
In addition
to the head office in Noida, Moser Baer has two manufacturing plants.
Thousands of documents are generated and archived at these three locations.
There is a full-fledged ERP system, Ramco Marshall, which also generates a
lot of information. We have gone in for ViewWise, a Document Management
System (DMS) which is integrated with our ERP system. This makes it easy to
correlate information from the ERP system with that of the DMS.
Corporations, government want 'metadata' to lose its
memory
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
When the New England Journal of Medicine used
a word-processing function to discover that Merck & Co. had deleted study
data about Vioxx and heart attacks, Merck joined a long line of
organizations bitten by information lurking in electronic files.
Medical records going electronic
Paperless
systems catching on as state and federal officials push for initiative
By Robert Miller THE NEWS-TIMES
At
Connecticut Family Orthopedics in Danbury, no one has trouble deciphering a
doctor's hastily-scrawled orders. Everything is on computer. "We're a
completely paperless office now," said Dr. David Elfenbein, one of the
orthopedists. Other practices are following suit. Dr. Jan Mashman of
Danbury Neurologic Associates said his office will switch to a electronic
record-keeping system by March. Dr. William Hennessy of Urology Associates
of Danbury said the doctors in his practice have already started down that
road.
President to Push Medical Record Computerization
By MEGHAN CLYNE - Staff Reporter of the Sun
WASHINGTON -
President Bush is readying a major push to computerize the nation's medical
records, including what is expected to be between $100 million and $200
million in funding for the program in the federal budget he will propose
next month. Two likely 2008 presidential contenders and leaders of their
respective political parties, Senator Frist, a Republican of Tennessee, and
Senator Clinton, a Democrat of New York, teamed up last year on legislation
to try to encourage doctors to replace pen-and-ink scribbles with a
sophisticated network of electronic medical records. Yet despite the
high-profile bipartisan backing, Congress has failed to agree on standards
for the technology or how to fund it.
According
to Ken Miles of the Food and Drug Administration: "One of the biggest
challenges facing companies today is migrating from paper-intensive systems
to paperless electronic systems. The more involved companies get with their
paper systems, the more they open themselves up to mistakes." In March of
1997, the FDA published its final rule on electronic records, electronic
signatures and audit trails. This rule--known as 21 CFR Part 11--establishes
the criteria under which the FDA recognizes electronic records and
electronic signatures as the equivalent of paper records and traditional
handwritten signatures.
by Merwyn J. Miller,
J.D.
Early 2002 I came to the
conclusion that I was absolutely bursting at the seams in paper and I needed
to do something. My practice is one of Estates and Trusts almost
exclusively. About a 50/50 blend of Estate planning (EP) and Estate
Administration (EA). Many of my EA files were thick and getting thicker. I
was having trouble finding anything in the file despite a rationally good
indexing system in the folder. And worse, my wife was getting upset because
as cases closed, they'd go to the archives (i.e. laundry room at home) to be
boxed and we were running out of room for anymore boxes.
Jeremy Sacco
The paperless office - promised since the first desktop computers started
appearing in the 1980s - has yet to become a reality for most companies.
Despite the increasing use of computers in all types of businesses, a good
portion of most day-to-day work is still paper-based. In addition, basic
human behavior works against a truly paperless office: employees will always
want to print documents for more careful study or to bring to meetings. For
now, the perfect paperless office system remains an elusive goal.
Paperless CPA Office - Myth or Reality?
By
Amir Morani
As a new CPA on the block,
about eight years ago, I had made it a practice to read as much as possible
on practice management along with the regular reading I had to do keep up
with the technical matters. I came across articles after articles about how
it was possible for CPAs to operate in an almost paperless office. It was,
however, quite difficult for me to imagine my own office being a paperless
office.
Experts Question 'Keep Everything' Philosophy
By
Drew Robb
Storage managers have been
barraged by a wave of claims on the subject of data retention (see
Can Data Ever Be Deleted?). The argument is that every single piece of
data has to be retained, since otherwise you could get into severe trouble
in the future. And, of course, with disk now being so cheap, the thing to do
is just retain everything going forward. The cardinal rule, vendors say, is
never ever throw anything away.
Who's minding the message store?
By
Michele Hope
Storage professionals are
fairly comfortable in the world of backups, remote replication, off-site
disaster recovery, and disk-based restore. However, comfort levels tend to
drop as talk turns to the company's e-mail management and archiving
strategy.
Everyone knows that the message store, left unchecked, can quickly morph
into something too large to manage. Yet the issue of e-mail management is
not just a storage problem. If it were, most IT organizations would be
comfortable just adding more capacity and possibly archiving older e-mail
messages onto lower-cost storage devices.
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