A. Archivist for The Clash Archive

B. Archivist for the Led Zeppelin Archive

C. Archivist for the Grateful Dead Archive

D. Archivist for The Doors Archive

If you answered “C”, you are correct.

The University of California Santa Cruz recently announced it was hiring a librarian to manage and act as a curator for its Grateful Dead digital library archives. The new archivist will be responsible for planning and overseeing digital processing of all archives-related material.

Whether they house collections for singing greats of the past, or 300-year old historical documents, university libraries across the world must ensure the safety and longevity of their items.

Document conversion services for colleges for colleges enable a variety of these items to be preserved, including:

• News clippings
• University catalogs
• Rare books and folios
• Local community records
• Special library collections

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The Hunt for the “Coolest” Digital Library Archivist Ever was posted at Imaging Services Blog. | http://www.imagingservices.com/blog

How many healthcare organizations have gone completely paperless with medical imaging and reached the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s (HIMSS) highest level?

A. 25

B. 10

C. 2

If you answered “C”, you are correct. Currently, just 2 out of 5,167 total healthcare systems have taken healthcare document imaging to the utmost level and achieved the HIMSS Stage 7 Award:

• The NorthShore University HealthSystem in Evanston, Illinois, which comprises 858 beds in 3 hospitals
• Kaiser Permanente Health Foundation in Oakland, California, which comprises 7,654 beds in 12 facilities

To achieve the Stage 7 Award for healthcare document imaging, a hospital must be truly paperless. Medical records must be completely electronic, and clinical information must be readily shared via electronic transactions with all entities within the health information exchange network. Also at this stage, the healthcare organization must use data warehousing and mining techniques to capture and analyze care data for performance improvement and advancing clinical decision support protocols.

To date, 37 additional healthcare organizations have achieved the Stage 6 Award, the next highest level for healthcare document imaging.

Here is the breakdown for the other 6 stages:

Stage 5: closed loop medication administration

Stage 4: Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE), Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) (clinical protocols)

Stage 3: clinical documentation (flow sheets), CDSS (error checking), Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) available outside radiology

Stage 2: clinical data repository, controlled medical vocabulary, may have document imaging

Stage 1: all ancillaries (lab, radiation and pharmacy) installed

Stage 0: all ancillaries not installed

Healthcare Document Imaging Quiz: Who’s Gone Paperless? was posted at Imaging Services Blog. | http://www.imagingservices.com/blog

1. Compliance

2. Cost Savings

3. Operational Efficiencies

If you answered, “B. Cost Savings,” you are correct. Compared with recent years, cost savings has taken a clear lead over compliance as the main business driver for investments in document and records management, according to AIIM’s State of the ECM Industry 2009 report. Other findings include:

• 28% of organizations would take more than a month to produce documents for a legal discovery process.
• Records managers are often left out of the equation. In 36% of large organizations, IT manages the SharePoint rollout with no input from the records management department. Another 14% admits no one is in charge and it’s completely out-of-control.
• Paper documents are still much better managed than electronic files. SMS/text messages, blogs and wikis are largely off the corporate radar in 75% of organizations. Their lack of inclusion in the corporate archive is a major risk.

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What’s the Main Business Driver for Document and Records Management? was posted at Imaging Services Blog. | http://www.imagingservices.com/blog