Industry Insider

Have you ever struggled with why a team, a direct report, or a business group didn't use a software tool that "was purchased for them"? If you ever have been responsible for deploying software, you've probably encountered this.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is expecting a large increase of electronic lodgement for the 2016 Census, however it still wants to boost its paper scanning capacity with up to 20 new high speed scanners to cope with more than 62 million paper forms

The nature of most Enterprise Content Management (ECM) implementations in both the private and government sectors are point solutions. These solutions are implemented to solve specific business challenge areas in one or more agencies in a government, or one or more departments in an organization.

The electronic health record is evolving to become the electronic health plan. The result is better outcomes for patients.

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” -Lao-tzu, Chinese philosopher (604 BC – 531 BC). That proverb can easily be applied to the effort required of an organisation trying to establish a strong Information Governance program.

The growing recognition of the business value of data has brought about the rise of a new title, the chief data officer (CDO), according to a research study conducted bv Experian Data Quality.

HP held its Information Governance Forum 2015 across Australian capital cities over the past two weeks. When a presenter referred to the Records Manager product by its previous name TRIM, he joked “I wish I had a dollar every time I did that. “ If there was someone willing to cough up a gold coin each time a speaker through the day-long event made the same mistake he/she would have been much poorer by the end of the day, as it was a routine slipup, understandable given TRIM’s deep roots in the Australian market.

Content, data, information – no matter what your terminology, it’s everywhere and being created by everyone in your organisation. No surprise; that information is not always properly governed by the people creating the content – much less by the organisation itself.

IBM has announced that Watson will gain the ability to “see” by bringing together Watson’s advanced image analytics and cognitive capabilities with data and images obtained from Merge Healthcare Incorporated’s medical imaging management platform.  

After two years of campaigning, Fairfax journalist, Ben Grubb, finally got the decision he was seeking: metadata could be considered “personal information” under the Privacy Act 1988 (the ‘Privacy Act’).