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Digital Vs. Electronic Records Management FAQs and Differences

Armstrong Archives

The terms “digital” and “electronic” are often used interchangeably these days, including when it comes to talking about records management. Digital Vs. Electronic Records – FAQs and Differences. To understand the differences between digital and electronic records, let’s define each of them and look at the uses of each.

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URLs Aren’t Archives ¯_(?)_/¯, and Other Stories

The Schedule

Today’s post is mainly in response to “ Digital Media and the Case of the Missing Archives ,” written by Danielle Tcholakian who in turn seems to have been inspired by an article in the Columbia Journalism Review. So let us start a mutual conversation with me first asking journalists, what do you mean by “archives”?

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Understanding HIPAA: A Guide to Avoiding Common Violations

Armstrong Archives

Some of the data that it covers are: Electronic health records Billing details Health insurance information The Importance of Compliance There are severe consequences to not abiding by the HIPAA rules. For example, imagine a hospital employee accidentally shares a patient’s medical records with someone who shouldn’t have seen them.

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Capturing Paper Documents - Best Practices and Common Questions

AIIM

To a greater or lesser degree, most significant information management initiatives will involve a scanning capability to capture hard copy paper documents as electronic images. For example, the top right corner of a form may be a consistently structured customer address block. printed documents. Partial conversion. This is more cost?

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Snowden Ten Years Later

Schneier on Security

He had been working on the Edward Snowden archive for a couple of months, and had a pile of more technical documents that he wanted help interpreting. I didn’t know either of them, but I have been writing about cryptography, security, and privacy for decades. I tried to talk to Greenwald about his own operational security.

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Chronicle of a Records Manager: Controlling the Chaos of Disaster Response and Recovery

ARMA International

I have overseen two significant projects: an electronic discovery production and disaster response and recovery effort. The Office of Archives and Records (OAR) is the official repository for the records of the ANO. The Old Ursuline Convent in the French Quarter has an office, archives, and an exhibit space.

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Finding the treasure in governement information management

CILIP

He gives an example from his early days at the Department for the Environment: “I remember in April 1986, I was on the library enquiry desk. David says that about half of the 55 government departments don’t have ministers, HMRC or OFGEN for example. But regulatory load quite often comes with other problems, like deadlines.