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Does EHR Reduce Healthcare Costs?
I recently stumbled across a Linked-In discussion “EHR Not Reducing Healthcare Costs – Do You Agree?” in the MedicExchange group that I am a part of. As I began reading some of the comments, It was clear that there are still a lot of skeptics when it comes to cost savings and EHR. It became apparent…
Maryland Electronic Courts – A Case Study in Document Management
As an avid supporter of the local legal community, Advance – The Document Specialists recently participated as a vendor in the Baltimore County Bar Association’s technology fair in Towson. The main focus of the event was a presentation given by Maryland District Court’s Chief Judge Ben Clyburn, about the Maryland Judiciary’s upcoming transition to an…
Document Management Mobility – a Window to Your Business from Anywhere in the World
In its purest sense, document management is the electronic conversion of your paper-based workflow. It’s taking what once required a piece of paper to move through your organization through inner-office mail, Fed-Ex, or hand delivery, and streamlining it to be an electronic, compliant document that can move freely online or through a customized software package.…
Hey IT, You Better Get Used to “BYOD”
With the widespread adoption of smartphones and tablets, today’s workforce is relying more and more on consumer mobile devices to help them in their professional lives. It is not enough to have a company supplied desktop PC, or even a laptop, anymore. End users are now demanding access to business applications and functions from their…
Using statistics to win in business when you’re not the biggest guy in the bid
Spring is here, which means baseball is creeping back into our minds. Coincidentally, I was recently listening to a podcast about the concepts behind the movie Moneyball. Essentially, a baseball team with fewer resources is forced to look for advantages in building and creating a team in nontraditional and data driven avenues. This approach infuriated…
Moving to a Hosted Exchange Solution? Verify Your Devices are Supported…
Believe it or not we will be entering the 2nd quarter of 2012 very shortly and the push to move applications to The Cloud has never been more prevalent. As an organization you may have decided to embrace various Cloud technologies within the past couple of years such as a hosted Microsoft Exchange Online solution…
Make sure you’re down with down coding
Imagine that you are a handyman. What you charge is based on the type of job that you execute. So let’s say that building a deck will cost $2,500, and installing shelving will cost $200. You wouldn’t want to be paid $200 for building a deck that should cost $2,500 would you? Of course not!
Mobile still rules in 2012
I recently attended a technology round table discussion over lunch with a group of IT professionals from the Baltimore/ Washington area. Not surprisingly, the two main topics of discourse were the Cloud and mobile technology. I’ll leave the blog feedback on the Cloud to my colleague Kevin O’Brien. For me, it was the conversation about the…
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