Meeting HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley’s Discovery Requirements For very different reasons, federal healthcare and financial statutes require strict archiving and e-discovery procedures. How can you optimize your email archives with legal and compliance considerations in mind?
The Anatomy of a Successful Escrow Deposit Whether you’re the developer or the customer, you need your interests protected. This essential escrow checklist can help you both get there.
What Is Software Escrow? Developers need a trusted partner to hold their source code and ensure their software users uninterrupted access. To put it simply, software escrow provides developers and users with valuable peace of mind.
Duking It Out: Remote Data Transfer vs. Offsite Tape Backup Understanding the pros and cons of these two highly effective backup approaches can score a strategic success for your business—and could save money, too.
2012 Outlook: Compliance and Your Data Backup Services Your data backup plan may be compliant today, but is it ready to address possible changes in federal or state laws in the coming year?
Software Escrow: A Best Practice Against Business Interruptions When you and your developer establish an escrow agreement, you’re better equipped to manage unforeseen technical or operational risks—or even a business partner’s potential move to Costa Rica.
Business Continuity: Protect Your Records—and Your Bottom Line A data interruption can take a significant toll on your business. But how much would a lost day cost you? A week? A month? If your records are safe, so is your business.
Design the Optimal Healthcare Records Retention Schedule Sometimes “forever” seems like the safest solution to the question of how long you should hold on to patient medical records. But you know better; keeping records forever poses risks. Find out how—and why—to avoid this appealing trap.
How to Avoid the Most Common Data Storage Pitfalls When you keep copies of noncritical data in storage, you may end up searching for the proverbial needle in the haystack—only to find the wrong needle. Here’s how to get it right.
Records Management and Enterprise Efficiency: Can't Have One Without the Other Almost everything we do in our business lives carries the goal of streamlining processes so that we can be more efficient, productive and get more work done on a daily basis. From app deployments and software upgrades to the procurement of new devices, all are aimed at making us better worker bees.
See how your business can partner with Iron Mountain to streamline your information management processes, improve efficiency, reduce operational costs, and minimize risk as it relates legal, security, and privacy compliance guidelines.
This tool is designed to allow you to quickly self-assess the maturity of your company's information management approach. Simply answer nine questions about your current practices and, in return, receive a useful summary of potential strengths and weakness.
This tool is designed to help CFOs, Finance Directors, and other finance professionals identify the areas of information management- including the management of hardcopy and electronic records - that may be costing your organization money unnecessarily.
Our six-step methodology illustrates how you can identify and potentially reduce the hidden costs associated with information management. Click through the six steps to learn how to eliminate the hidden costs of information management.
This tool is designed to help senior operations and line of business professionals identify areas of delays and disruptions to critical business processes that impact customer satisfaction, staff productivity, and your exposure to risk that may be related to how you're managing information—including hardcopy and electronic records.
It’s time to get ambitious about the year ahead. Get ready for 2012 by indexing, imaging, storing and purging all of those records you haven’t had time to organize during the year.
Are boxes of records turning your workplace into something you’d see on a cable-TV reality show? Here’s why it makes sense to seek some outside assistance.
Learn the keys for thriving in a hybrid records world. John Mancini, president of AIIM , and Richard Reese, chairman & CEO of Iron Mountain, will share industry trends, best practices and actual examples to help you become a more effective information manager.
There’s only so much an administrative assistant can do to facilitate a sound records management system. Here’s the why and how of creating an entirely new role in your organization to master this awesome task.
Need to get rid of dated files and sensitive information? Letting the shredders come to your site may complement your firm’s privacy and confidentiality standards—and bring you greater peace of mind, too.
Often created by committee and revised endlessly, contracts can be challenging to track. Of all the documents you manage and archive, these deserve special attention. Your business depends on it.
Shredding is an efficient, compliant means for your medium-size business to dispose of old, yet potentially sensitive records. The most effective plan covers all applicable local laws and regulations.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) is pushing healthcare facilities throughout the country to update their electronic medical records (EMR) systems. Stipulations from the ARRA, and recent rulings from the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), require that healthcare organizations show meaningful use of the technology they have implemented in order to receive the promised incentive payments. Learn how more efficient systems, processes, and decisions can help health care providers get the most out of their EMR systems to meet or exceed the criteria for meaningful use.
Are current economic conditions compelling your human resources department to optimize its recruitment processes—while also contributing more to your firm’s bottom-line savings? You can tackle these goals by treating your employee records and transactions as strategic tools.
A thoughtfully designed information management plan drives cost savings, strongly supports compliance and increases efficiency.
Chances are good that sooner or later your organization is going to be faced with some type of litigation. And when the attorney calls, you want to make sure that you have the resources, tools, and processes in place to quickly access and review the information your legal team requires.