The Health Information Management Association of Australia (HIMAA) has expressed concern about the lack of health information management in plans to implement recommendations of a report into the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) system.
Records management is the effective and systematic control of an organization’s records, regardless of medium, through their entire life cycle–from receipt or creation until their final disposition. Records management ensures that valuable records evidencing an organization’s activities and that have legal, fiscal, administrative or historical value are protected and accessible while useless records are systematically destroyed.
Consultancy Analytics8 has announced the Contextual Intelligence Challenge (www.contextualintelligence.com.au), a competition for business intelligence professionals to submit their innovative use cases for leveraging the Squirro unstructured data analytics platform to their organisational advantage.
Adaptive case management appears to be the current buzz word in the workflow and BPM world. Not only is it a bit of a mouthful, it also seems surprisingly hard to explain if someone asks you to. Check out Wikipedia to see what I mean! To paraphrase Emperor Joseph II to Mozart in 1782, “too many words”.
The Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) has been awarded the Rob Barnett Award for Excellence in Records and Information Management by the ACT Branch of RIM Professionals Australasia.
Lexmark is back in the lead in the race to acquire enterprise capture vendor ReadSoft, after a new offer that pushes its bid up to $US248 million, around 20% more than its initial bid in May.
Document process automation solutions provider Esker has announced that its cloud-based service, Esker on Demand, has processed over one billion pages.
A large Australian bank has chosen Kofax software to automate the processing of mortgage applications and ancillary documents, and to redact credit card numbers from bank statements to meet Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) requirements.
Ediscovery vendor Epiq Systems has found that while more than three-quarters of the corporations it surveyed feel confident in their ability to locate key data in the face of litigation or investigation, only around half of these continually monitor and update their data map, suggesting such confidence may be misplaced.
