The role of the Health Information Manager is no easy task. Like a conductor leading an orchestra, they must lead a wide range of health information initiatives – across multiple departments – to keep their health system in tune. And with the healthcare data explosion – driven by the Electronic Medical Record, and clinical imaging – there is a huge imperative to manage increasingly diverse types of information.
Scanning data from paper forms is one way to capture information, however other alternatives exist with solutions such as the digital pen and software that can recognise data as it is handwritten.
ISACA, a nonprofit, independent association of more than 100,000 governance, risk, security and assurance professionals worldwide, has issued new guidance outlining key questions for boards of directors to ask to ensure their enterprise’s cloud initiative is in line with business objectives and the organisation’s risk tolerance.
Australian organisations are forecast to spend almost A$70 million on business process management suites (BPMS) in 2013, an increase of 10.4 percent over 2012, according to Gartner. Worldwide spending on BPMS is expected to reach US$2.8 billion, up 9.5 percent compared to 2012.
Index Engines, an enterprise data management and archiving company, is looking to provide a cost and time effective solution to the Big Data storage crisis with its latest release, the Catalyst Data Profiling Engine.
Sunshine Coast Regional Council has improved business operations with the Xcellerate IT document capture solution by automating the process of over 150,000 supplier invoices per year with the integration of Technology One Financials workflow.
One of the challenges in delivering and implementing a digital asset management system is the issue of asset ingestion and building the database. In plain English this means the process of adding the files or digital assets with enough relevant and descriptive metadata to make them valuable and findable.
Budget difficulties could see Australia lagging behind a forecast digital revolution in healthcare for the Asia-Pacific region, according to analyst firm Frost & Sullivan.
Eastman Kodak has announced a deal to swap its imaging business for a $US2.8 billion debt owed to a pension fund, and will not proceed with a previously announced $US210 million sale of its its document imaging unit to Brother Industries.
