The AIIM Blog - Overcoming Information Chaos (98)

GDPR and Cross Border Data Flows Between the EU and the US: Current State of the Law

By: Andrew Pery July 14th, 2017

As a direct response to the Snowden revelations relating to the bulk collection of personal data by US intelligence the European Commission and the US Department of Commerce jointly developed a new framework purporting to considerably strengthen the protection of privacy rights of EU citizen data when such data is transferred to US data processors and controllers. The previous regime under the Safe Harbor was invalidated by the European Court of Justice in Schrems v. Data Protection Authority, which held that EU citizen’s privacy rights are at risk given the broad overreach by US public authorities.

Medical Records: Getting Smarter but Not Intelligent

By: Dan Antion July 13th, 2017

Unfortunately, I’ve had a few recent encounters with our healthcare system. As you would expect, I paid attention to the recordkeeping process. The spectrum ranged from paper to born-digital and has me thinking about my health records in a new way.

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Certified Information Professional (CIP)

In Pursuit of the CIP: Why Did I Wait So Long?

By: Peggy Winton July 10th, 2017

I have a confession to make: I was a CIP skeptic. That’s right; I often found myself questioning whether the body of knowledge CIP represents -- even in its redesigned form -- was truly relevant for today’s information stewards in leading the digital transformation charge. I wondered whether business strategists who comprise the fastest growing AIIM membership sector would find applicability therein? Or, was CIP simply a capstone on a lifelong career for those core (and fewer) content “specialists”?

Scan to Email Is Not the Right Way to Digitize Your Business

By: Wouter Koelewijn June 30th, 2017

An increasing number of organizations are digitizing their business processes to improve productivity and reduce costs and the risk of human error. Often organizations start by scanning to email where a person scans a document that is sent into their personal email inbox and is then manually delivered to the final destination. This is extremely bad for businesses, and replacing scan to email should be a key part of any organization’s digitization strategy.

A Trip to the Computer Museum

By: John Mancini June 29th, 2017

Never have the risks of disruption – and the rewards of nimbleness and agility and creativity -- been higher. SaaS solutions to enterprise problems – with far fewer aches and pains to business types -- have swept through corporate America. For years, Boomers had the benefit of numbers – after all, they still represented the majority of the workforce and dominated the C-Level within organizations. By 2020, those pesky Gen X, Y, and Z folks will be 80% of the workforce. The Boomers – and the institutional knowledge they have – will largely be gone.