Document & Records Management

Information Management and Governance (IMG) specialist iCognition has won the Records and Information Management Professionals Australasia (RIMPA) Jim Shepherd Industry Award, which was presented at the recent inForum Conference in Adelaide.

Instead of actively trying to manage a records lifecycle, many large government and enterprise organisations today are doing the equivalent of sweeping them under the carpet.

Australia's Department of Human Services has implemented an OpenText solution for Outgoing Correspondence management, OpenText Document Presentment (OpenText DP).

Ahmed Fahour, Managing Director and CEO of Australia Post, believes that letter volumes are set to “literally fall off a cliff”. A survey of IDM readership in medium to large enterprise and government has backed up Fahour’s predictions. More than half of enterprise and government organisations in Australia and New Zealand surveyed on their client communications roadmap by IDM expect printed mail to disappear from the mix within five years’ time.

Can you defend your decision to delete data your organization no longer requires? That’s a critical question that every organization must address at some point.

DocsCorp has updated its software for managing metadata risks for desktop and mobile users with the release of cleanDocs Desktop 1.6.

A new quick start user interface included in the updates to KODAK Capture Pro Software v5.0 allows users to initiate a scan job with a single click. A free trial of the new version is available to download at kodakalaris.com/go/capturepronews.   

Cloud solution provider Aconex has been chosen by Southern Cross Care (SA & NT), a leading healthcare provider in South Australia, to support the design, building and handover of two major projects for the Mount Barker and Myrtle Bank areas.

Earlier this year, an investigation undertaken by the Office of the Information Commissioner (OAIC) found that the Pound Road Medical Centre did not take reasonable steps to destroy or permanently de-identify personal information when it stored patient health records in a garden shed during renovations. The shed was subsequently broken into and the sensitive data was compromised, the majority of which was at least 11 years old and related to approximately 960 people who ceased to be active patients.

Australia's cultural institutions risk losing their relevance if they don't increase their use of digital technologies and services, according to new research from the CSIRO.

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