Our friends over at business.com compiled an excellent list of the top three elements of digitization to help ensure your business’s archives are safe, secure and easily accessible.

“Any business will generate important documents that must be stored either for internal operations, reference by clients or to comply with government regulations. In the past, filing cabinets typically lined the walls of every office. As technology has evolved, so, too, have document management methods. However, while document management might seem like a straightforward concept, there is often more to it than meets the eye.

Understanding how to properly establish and maintain a digital archive is critical to keeping your documents secure, accessible, and adaptable to your business’s needs. Document management can generally be broken down into three broad categories. Small businesses should carefully consider each category to ensure that company operations are streamlined, your critical files can be easily retrieved and that files are secure. These tips will help you get it right the first time.”

Want to read more? Check out business.com’s direct blog with this information written by Adam Uzialko.

Editor’s note: Looking for document management software for your business? Learn more in the rest of our blog where we share industry news from top sources leading today’s forward thinking business strategies. 

“Records management can be a chore, especially for agencies with billions of active records. However, missing critical information, having conflicting information or not having documents in a digital format is incentive enough to take records management policies seriously. The tangible benefits of transparency, efficiency and accountability are well established and worth the effort.”

Wayne Starrs at DefenseSystems.com is a writer serious about records management compliance. He has written a great commentary on the benefits of selecting the right framework up front to handle your Management of DOD Records and any secure document.

The Department of Defense is serious enough about records management that its program calls for information and intellectual capital to “be managed as national assets” — i.e., with the proper effort and attention to best practices. This is true whether the information is being generated and stored physically or electronically. For records and information management, DOD agencies must consider the full information lifecycle, ensuring strategies in place apply to all information — both current and future — in digital and physical formats.

Click here to read Starrs’ full commentary.

Increasing adoption of health information management systems and electronic medical records systems, Growing needs to curtail healthcare costs as well as need to minimize the use of paper, and the need to increase clinical efficiency are key factors contributing to a high CAGR of medical document management during the forecast period.

According to the current analysis of Reports and Data, the global Medical Document Management market was valued at USD 334.5 Million in 2018 and is expected to reach USD 774.5 Million by the year 2026, at a CAGR of 10.4 %. The systems eliminate paper-based processes like record management in the health care sector. The system involves the database of patient’s information related to health in clinics and allows doctors and administrators to make well-informed choices in treatment for particular injury and hospitalization procedures. Using the document template utility, medical offices can plan and deploy customized solutions that enable them to customize to their needs. Text templates can be set up for patient information sheets, lab results, prescriptions, and any other type of text that may be looked-for. Each document template allows for several user-defined fields that can assist with indexing and searching. For example, a lab-result text template may consist of a patient id field, a date field, and a lab name field.

The Research Report conducted by GlobalBankingandFinance.com reports key players in the Medical Document Management Systems market are 3M Company, Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, McKesson, Epis Corporation System, Athena Health, Cerner Corporation Siemens, Among others. They also report that the cloud-based system is “expected to witness lucrative growth during the forecast period 2019-2026 with a CAGR of 10.1% owing to the low-cost installation, implementation, and set up of these systems.”