Obama and EDM

On the Fierce Content Management website, there's a blogger writing about another blogger (that's a bit complicated) discussing President-Elect Barack Obama's plans to streamline online records and data management in the medical field. The question both these writers are musing on - would more intense oversight and regulation of the industry be a good thing or bad thing for EDM businesses? The two experts reach slightly different conclusions.

On fierce, Ron Miller says - "Bex Huff, who is a consultant specializing in Oracle Enterprise Content Management, wonders in a recent blog post if President-elect Obama's recent radio address calling for the modernization of medical record keeping would be a boon for content management vendors. It's Huff's contention that it would be, but I'm not sure this particular aspect of the president-elect's plan would help ECM specifically. It could certainly help related industries around scanning and pure document management."

Follow the link for the rest of Miller's post, as well as a link to Bex Huff's thoughts.

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Introducing EDM

There's a fascinating article running today on Search CIO Midmarket today. The topic, the future of electronic records and document management. The findings - a lot of companies still don't have a program in place. According to the start of the piece:

"Despite all the hoopla over the need for electronic records retention policies -- particularly given the need to produce records for litigation for compliance with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure -- many midmarket companies fail to have or enforce standard practices to retain electronic records. In fact, recent research shows that a third to a half of U.S.-based organizations still do not include electronic records as part of their records retention policies." The story goes on to say, "Part of the problem is that most midmarket companies have not been able to shift from a hard-copy records management mind-set to an electronic document management mind-set. "They just haven't made that leap," said Brian Hill, an analyst at Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research Inc."

If you're interested, the author also points out the many benefits of introducing EDM to your business (many of which I've already covered at this blog). Follow the link for the link for the full article.

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