Document & Records Management
A fruit seller at the local market had “Best Quality” red apples for sale on one side of her stand at $3.50 and others marked “Great value” for $2.50 on the other side. A friend asks her – what’s the difference between the apples. Her answer – just the price and what the buyer perceives… Sticker price is not always a good proxy for value.
A major program is underway to digitise more than three million pages of paper records recording the history of more than 20 cemeteries dispersed across Melbourne stretching from Lilydale to Werribee. Created in March 2010 by amalgamating eight former cemetery trusts, the Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust (GMCT) has begun the vast undertaking in tandem with a move to adopt the ELO electronic document and records management system.
A new set of objectives for information management at Australian government agencies proposes that paper will be completely removed from business workflows by the year 2020.
The new year is fast approaching and it seems timely to remind you of legislation that goes along with a ‘cleaning out’ of the archives. Before you press delete or shred that document, be sure to exercise diligence in complying with document and record retention requirements. Non-compliance can result in economic loss or even strict criminal liability for individuals and organisations.
The role of chief medical information officer (CMIO) s is a relatively new job in the healthcare industry, although one that is becoming increasingly important since the acceleration of government efforts to establish a national record-keeping system for health records. To understand where the role fits in the eHealth landscape, IDM spoke with Dr Ronnie Ptasznik, appointed CMIO at Victoria's Monash Health in 2015. in addition to his duties as CMIO and an Associate Professor at Monash University, Dr Ptasznik maintains a senior clinical role as Deputy Director of Monash Health Diagnostic Imaging over its five campuses.
In this article, Kapish Consultant Jon Grundy explores HP’s latest solution to regaining control of the growing records governance and compliance issues associated with snowballing SharePoint content in the enterprise. Jon Grundy is a highly experienced TRIM consultant with a diverse range of industry experience including nine years of HP TRIM/HP RM administration and support. Jon worked with both TOWER Software and HP before joining Kapish in December 2013.
Is private email used by government ministers or prime ministers accessible to freedom of Information (FOI) requests? Malcolm Turnbull’s office is only certain that this may "potentially" be the case. Experts are even less sure.
The New Zealand government has announced plans to build a single, national electronic health record (EHR) able to be accessed via portals and apps running on a variety of devices.
The aim of records management is simple: keep what you need and discard what you don’t. When this aim is achieved, organizations are less exposed to risk. The question is, how can we achieve this simple goal?
Anyone who's had the responsibility to manage an end-user centred system has heard this refrain when asking people to get rid of old emails, documents, files, voice mail recordings, pictures, or any other electronically stored information (ESI). "I need it to do my job" or "It has business value and I need to save it".
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