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EMR use growing among doctors
For many industries, paperless tools can provide more efficiency and security over paper records. However, for some companies, going paperless may not just be a good idea, but a law as well. The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health act in 2009 began offering financial incentives to healthcare facilities that adopted electronic medical records (EMRs),…
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Helping insurance companies go paperless
Many industries have made the switch to at least a partly, if not completely paperless office. Healthcare facilities will soon be required to use electronic medical records, and e-signatures have helped realtors and financial institutions sell homes and make loans without physically meeting clients and customers. However, one industry that has struggled to go digital…
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The many advantages of social collaboration software
Any successful business leader will tell you that communication and teamwork are some of the biggest factors behind running a business smoothly, and with social collaboration tools like email, video conferencing and digital document sharing software, collaboration can be done all over the world. But what are the other advantages besides more affordable communication? In…
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Inside the Last U.S. Postal Facility That Reads Illegible Handwriting
Last update: June 2026 Most mail in the U.S. is sorted entirely by machine. But a small fraction of letters every day still defeat even the best optical character recognition (OCR) software, and when that happens, there’s exactly one place in the country built to handle it. The Last Remote Encoding Center At their peak…
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Running a small business? Here’s how to go paperless
For small businesses, every penny can make a difference. When Neal Frankle, the owner of Wealth Pilgrim, decided to make some administrative investments in his business, he went paperless. In an article for Business Insider, Frankle explains how to make similar changes and how it helped his bottom line. First of all, he explains, any…
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There will always be a need for some manual document management
Many practices and jobs that at one time required a person, have been replaced by technology instead. Financial institutions rely on algorithms when making lending decisions, postal service workers and accountants have lost jobs due to increase in email and tax software systems, and even stores are using self-checkout lines to cut back on cashiers.…
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School district goes paperless in 12 years
After 12 years of scanning and shredding 16,500 student files, an employee of the Davenport Community School District met her goal of going completely paperless. While Linda Zurborg’s original plan was to create a paperless school district in less than a decade, she has officially turned all the paper files into digital documents as of this week.…
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One company sees value in postcards
We wrote last month about how companies can create an effective post card mailing to get the word out about new promotions, services or other news to customers. But in a world where so much communication is done digitally, does this format work? As one company recently discovered, sending out postcards, or other forms of…
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Small businesses see value in going paperless
When Martin Penninga was brought on as a manager of a family clinic in Alberta, Canada, in 2008 his main responsibility was to increase profits. Soon after coming on board, he realized with their system of paper records, 12 percent of the clinic's budget were going toward administration work. In an industry that relies heavily on…