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Medical Records Management for Hospitals: What HIPAA Requires and Where Outsourcing Helps
Hospitals generate more patient records than almost any other care setting: admission documents, consent forms, clinical notes, lab results, imaging reports, insurance authorizations, discharge summaries, and billing records. All of it is governed by retention requirements and subject to HIPAA’s privacy and security rules. At the volume hospitals operate, managing that accurately is one of…
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Paper is already on the way out for many businesses
Without realizing it, the world around us is starting to become paperless, whether we like it or not. Processes that were traditionally handled with pen and paper have been streamlined with the help of a mobile device, cloud computing and document scanning service. A recent blog post from CTI Image walks through several ways that…
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How to improve records management
These summer months are crucial for businesses and schools. Sure, people are going on vacations and enjoying the longer days, but there's a new fiscal and school year to prepare for. By the end of this month, many businesses will start their 2013-2014 business cycle and once August rolls around, students and teachers will have…
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How banks can improve records management
Much of a bank teller's workload requires a lot of manual data entry to submit information. This time consuming process can be detrimental to the bank if there are missing documents when it is time for an audit. If financial institutions considered switching from managing deposits by hand to a bulk scanning service that can…
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Simplify school registration with records management
In the middle of the summer, the last thing teachers, parents or students want to think about is the upcoming school year. But for administrative staff that have to anticipate fall registration, now is the best time to prepare. Whether students are relocating from another town or requesting to change schools within a district, parents…
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Records management is more flexible than filing cabinets
As businesses become more dependent on processing software, it is becoming more important to properly manage different files of information. Offices can increase work productivity if they consider a comprehensive records management system. This way less time is spent converting files to be compatible with other programs. Sifting through filing cabinets for information can be…
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How Digitizing Survey Data Improves Productivity
For organizations still collecting paper surveys — comment cards, satisfaction forms, employee feedback sheets — getting from a stack of paper to usable insight is often the real bottleneck, not the surveying itself. What the Research Shows The most relevant recent data on document digitization productivity comes from the Association for Intelligent Information Management (AIIM),…
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Banks can benefit from document management services
Transitioning from a backup data center to a cloud-based electronic document management service may sound daunting to banks, but it can work. If financial institutions changed their outlook about clouds and think of it as a new way to increase efficiency for customers, they will be able to truly see the benefits of switching over. Going from paper…
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Document management needs strong data security
Businesses see the benefits of going paperless with document storage systems but neglect to make the investment to protect their sensitive documents. Based on Gartner’s Worldwide IT Spending Forecast, there will be limited growth in IT spending between 2014 through 2017, Even though there is potential with technology like mobility, analytics or the clouds. “Business leaders tell us they recognize the…