Introduction
Filing and record management systems will differ depending on whether you are a hospital, clinic, community health, medical practice or an office. Protocols and the need to conserve space will vary. However you generally are all looking for initiatives that provide a long-term solution to the increasing cost, ongoing maintenance, staffing cost and inefficient use of information that are symptoms of most filing strategies.
Filing and record management systems will differ depending on whether you are a hospital, clinic, community health, medical practice or an office. Protocols and the need to conserve space will vary. However you generally are all looking for initiatives that provide a long-term solution to the increasing cost, ongoing maintenance, staffing cost and inefficient use of information that are symptoms of most filing strategies.
Culling History
These symptoms have usually been addressed by an expensive band aid approach of an annual cull that does not address the long term issues. It’s a lengthy and expensive exercise. The companies handling this kind of work are more than happy to maintain the status quo, as it means ongoing work on a regular and fairly predicable basis. It needs staff to cull, track, box, scan, store, destroy and maintain.
These symptoms have usually been addressed by an expensive band aid approach of an annual cull that does not address the long term issues. It’s a lengthy and expensive exercise. The companies handling this kind of work are more than happy to maintain the status quo, as it means ongoing work on a regular and fairly predicable basis. It needs staff to cull, track, box, scan, store, destroy and maintain.