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Choosing to Store, Scan, or Shred Your Documents: A Comprehensive Guide

Armstrong Archives

This reality has made data security increasingly important, requiring a sea change in the way companies handle their documents. We have decades of experience in the safe storage, scanning, and shredding of our clients’ important documents. What paperwork do I need to keep: How do you know which documents to keep or shred?

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How Long Should I Keep This Business Record For?

AIIM

This is perhaps one of the most-asked questions in all of records management. Too often I hear one of two, equally bad answers: Keep Records for Seven years: This seems to be the de facto answer, especially for financial services records. What kind of record is it? Your Best Answer May Already Exist.

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The Hidden Benefits of the Digital Mailroom

AIIM

This will predominantly be documents with a structure such as forms, orders, invoices, delivery dockets, and vouchers. The steps for capture-to-process include: Recognize and extract useful data from the document or form. These important hidden benefits include: Improved searchability of business documents. Records Managers.

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Medical Records Storage and Physicians’ Responsibilities Upon Closing their Practice

Shoreline Records Management

Introduction As the healthcare industry evolves and technology continues to advance, medical records management has seen a significant transformation. Documents that have outlived their mandated retention period must be organized and securely disposed of.

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Impact of IDP on Business Growth – Customer Onboarding Use Case

Info Source

By Petra Beck, Senior Analyst Capture Software We are often faced with questions like: How do we justify an investment in a Capture or Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) solution? THE ROLE OF IDP IN THE AUTOMATION OF INPUT MANAGEMENT Before we discuss the role of IDP, we need to look at the scope of the term. as quickly as possible.

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Cloud, Intelligent Content Services, and Digital Fragility: What’s on the RIM Horizon for 2020

ARMA International

Highlights of the Forrester Research and ARMA International Records Management Online Survey, Q4 2019. 2019 marks ten years since ARMA International and Forrester Research first surveyed records and information management (RIM) decision-makers to understand the key trends and challenges facing the profession.

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Archives Records 2018 RMS Annual Meeting

The Schedule

Nearly 200 peers came together last Friday in Washington, DC, for the joint meeting of the Acquisitions & Appraisal and Records Management Sections. Outgoing section chair Eira Tansey reported on RMS activities for the year: 20 blog posts, including a series by committee member Jessika Drmacich on Resourceful Records Managers.