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Enterprise Content Management (ECM) | Healthcare
Let's start with a hypothetical scenario. I woke up to the sound of my car horn blaring and a woman standing over me with a golf club. My car was conveniently parked against a tree, with a plume of water shooting over my head like fireworks from a nearby fire hydrant. My chest hurt - a lot. When I got to the hospital in the ambulance, I informed them of the pain. They told me they were going to do an EKG just to be sure everything was okay. I shared that I had just had an EKG done at the same hospital two weeks ago. They got on their fancy computer and pulled up my “electronic medical record.” Unfortunately, the nurse informed me that my EKG didn’t show up because that wasn’t ‘structured data’ that fit nicely in their EMR. The nurse said that my EKG was in a paper chart down in Medical Records – which was closed for the night. I said, “Do you know who I am?”
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Enterprise Content Management (ECM) | Information Security | Intelligent Information Management (IIM)
Why You Need an Information Strategy For many years, organizations have survived by "winging it" when it comes to information management.
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Cloud | Document Management | Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
I'm a big fan of all those year/decade retrospectives and year/decade prediction lists that appear this time of year. Just for fun - and to keep what we do in the content, document, and records space in a bit of perspective - here on the left side of this post is the Google predictive text for "2010 predictions." So I guess we have a bit of a way to go before our industry is top of mind. Hey, there's a big surprise! Before venturing into my own (modest) predictions in a future post, here are a few I really found intriguing -- by people way smarter than me.
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Capture and Imaging | Document Management
1. Choose Your Battles Just because you have purchased a great new scanning/capture/data entry automation application doesn't mean that it makes sense to automate every type of document under the sun. Sure, you may feel empowered to spend the time or money required to automate the indexing of that quarterly report that is generated only four times per year, but that would be analogous to hunting for quail with a bazooka. Make sure that you look at the feasibility and return on investment before jumping into projects. Always take the automation projects with the highest & fastest ROI first and pass on the low or negative net present value projects.
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As the traditional “paper-based” world gives way to digital documentation and transactions, enterprises are demanding innovative solutions for digitally signing and authenticating such documents, files, and forms with iron-clad protection against forgery. Solutions must guarantee non-repudiation and promise the same level of security and trust that exists with conventional documentation. At the same time, such a solution should be simple to use, easy to deploy, and offer a rapid return on investment. With the rise of global digital businesses, transactions and documents may need to be signed by many people in different parts of the world. Users should be able to sign documents directly from their desktop or via a zero technology footprint using any web browser.
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Enterprise Content Management (ECM) | Sharepoint and Office 365
Microsoft recently released the beta version of SharePoint 2010. From a content management perspective, their goal was to provide “ECM for the Masses." But what exactly does that mean, and how does Microsoft expect to achieve it? I spent time over the last few months test driving the beta, and the technical preview versions with an eye toward “ECM for the Masses.” Here are eight ways SharePoint 2010 is bringing Enterprise Content Management (ECM) into the mainstream:
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