Document & Records Management

A manager at The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) NSW Branch has admitted ordering a purge of email following receipt of a Notice to Produce from the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption.

Targetting law firms with a new document management and collaboration solution, Microsoft has previewed Matter Center for Office 365 at the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) annual conference.

Nikec Solutions has launched Binder Express, a light version of its Professional   electronic ring binder designed to allow individuals and businesses of all sizes to take their first steps in using digital ring binders and improve the way they work with electronic documents. 

Grace Records Management has recently acquired Queensland archive and information management company, Securedoc.

In my time in this business (enterprise content management, records management, document management, etc.) I have been asked to help with a ‘shared drive problem’ more times than I can remember. This particular issue is analogous with the paperless office problem. Thirty years ago when I started my company I naively thought that both problems would be long gone by now but they are not. I still get requests for purely physical records management solutions and I still get requests to assist customers in sorting out their shared drives problems.

Victoria’s largest not-for-profit privately owned healthcare organisation, Epworth Healthcare, has completed a major rollout of the BOSSnet Digital Medical Record including implementation of e-forms and deployment 25+ Kodak document scanners across the 8 Epworth hospitals.

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.

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.

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