Even if your office is already paperless, you will still have to deal with an occasional influx of paper documents. The best way to manage these is to immediately convert them into digital files so that they can quickly be integrated into your paperless office system. In order to do so, you’ll need to scan them. Improperly scanning your paper documents, however, will exacerbate the length of the process and possibly harm the quality of the scans. That’s why it’s essential to have a system in place to effectively convert your documents. Here is how to scan documents properly for best results:

One of the most recent developments when it comes to improving your organization's operational efficiency is to go digital. By taking this step, you have given each member of your team the capability to handle tasks much more quickly and with fewer errors. Going digital has allowed you to mostly ignore your paper documents – which is a good thing, since paper documents are expensive and difficult to manage. However, even if you rarely – or never – use them, protecting paper documents still needs to be a priority for your organization. Here is why:

Using digital medical documents – instead of paper – is absolutely the best course of action for all medical organizations. This is because it saves money, streamlines document accessibility and improves document security. This means not only creating digital documents for the future, but also converting your current paper documents to digital files. But, like all medical organizations, yours has mounds of paperwork that needs to be converted, so how should you go about making the switch? The best way to go about medical document scanning is to hire a professional service - and here is why:

Because your organization's human resources department handles sensitive employee information, the Canadian government has certain requirements for managing any related records. This requires you to do more than keep everyone's social insurance number a secret. The federal government has several requirements for this.

The most valuable asset that your company owns is its brand, because this determines whether or not people will believe in your organization's capabilities and product value to buy what you are selling – regardless of how good your products and services are. A key factor in developing your brand is your customers' personal experience with your company. There are many ways to improve the customer service experience (personnel training, faster service, etc.). However, one way to improve customer service that you may not have considered is with better records management.

Going paperless is a must for your office for two important reasons: you will save a lot of money and make your office run much more efficiently. In order to get the most out of a paper-free office space, you need to have a set of best practices in place to streamline the process. That being said, here are six paperless office best practices that you need to implement as soon as you have converted from paper to digital documents:

Your accounts receivable department is one of your most important assets and you should not take it for granted. Unlike cash, an accounts receivable account does not hold any guaranteed benefits for your company – at least until after it is paid in full. That being said, you can streamline the efficiency of your accounts receivable with the right process. Here is how to better manage your accounts receivable process:

Like any government entity, your municipal government generates countless records on a regular basis. These records can be hard to manage, as they can take up a great deal of space and make it difficult for you to handle future records and archives. However, the last thing that you want to do is destroy or ignore your current archives and records. They should be preserved. Here are the reasons why municipal governments should preserve all of their documentation, past, present and future:

Although many businesses, organizations and institutions have relied on microfilm to archive their media for historical purposes, it’s now more efficient and in some cases a requirement to convert microfilm over to digital media as the initial source for records management.  Microfilm conversion services can be a lengthy, technical and specialized process.  If you are seeking to hire a company to convert your microfilm, it’s important to know what questions to ask in order to receive quality microfilm conversion services.  

To ensure total patient safety, streamlined oversight and the highest quality of care, Canada's government has certain medical records retention requirements that you must follow. As with any government regulations, completely learning these requirements can be a convoluted process. To help your medical organization to get on track with the federal government's medical records retention requirements ASAP, we are going to break down what you need to know about them.