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Going Paperless 101: Schools Embrace Initiatives to Reduce Waste

Much like a growing number of city councils, district attorney offices, courts and government agencies, more and more schools and school boards across the nation are going paperless.

How Document Management Can Help Governments 'Stay in the Sunshine'

Insuring the Uninsurable: Tips from eBridge in Funeral Business Advisor

Our most recent article, "Insuring the Uninsurable: How Safe Are Your Funeral Home's Documents?" was recently published on pages 46 and 47 of the May/June issue of Funeral Business Advisor. It's a topic that became even more important for us to cover in the wake of the tragic effects of a number of tornadoes this spring, and which has us thinking even about our own preparedness plans in the event of a disaster.

They Went Paperless - Can You?

5 Mistakes You Can Avoid With Web-Based Document Management

Everyone is talking about document management these days. And while you may know that it is a way to store paper and electronic documents together, you might not have considered how document management - especially web-based like eBridge Solutions' - can make your day-to-day tasks easier. Let's look at five mistakes you can be sure to avoid if you add an online document management system to your technology toolbox.

Just How Secure Is Your Data?

On Feb. 15, a Connecticut hospital discovered that the personal information of more than 90,000 patients had been transferred to a hard drive - which was then taken from the hospital and promptly lost. MidState Medical Center - which has since dismissed the employee who violated company policy by transferring the sensitive information to a personal hard drive so they could work from home - has notified the 93,500 patients affected and offered each and every one two years of identity protection services. Still, the security breach provides an unparalleled opportunity to ask yourself: "How safe are my electronic records?"

3 Steps to Reducing Your Paper Burden - Step 1: Assess Your Problem

Are you still suffering the inefficiencies of a paper-based office workflow? Making the move to a practically paperless office - or a less-paper office - might seem way too daunting. But once you see how reducing the paper in your system can improve your workflow, solve your storage problems and increase your compliance with recordkeeping requirements - as well as how affordable it can be when it's scaled to your business' size and scope - you may find that paperless document management can work really well for you.

3 Steps to Reducing Your Paper Burden - Step 3: Measure and Assess

The most satisfying thing about change is the results, so make sure you're keeping track of what paperless document management is doing for your operation. This is like the cookie at the end of the chores: it makes any effort worthwhile, and motivates you to forge ahead.

3 Steps to Reducing Your Paper Burden - Step 2: Make a Plan

You've decided your paper-based workflow is causing your business too much pain. It's creating a storage burden, draining productivity, putting your records at risk - or all of the above. In step one of your path to reducing your office's dependence on paper, you took stock of your problem and defined your goals. Now, it's time to actually get that plan in action.