Posts Tagged ‘Enterprise Content Management’

Electric content management: Is your office saving trees?

October 19th, 2009

Walk into Le Chic Dentistry and you’ll notice space free of clutter, unlike most offices.

What’s different at this forward-thinking practice is there’s no paper to be found anywhere because they have incorporated electronic content management software. ECM can be an expensive initial investment but important and also very environmental friendly.

‘We wanted our office to resonate with warmth and care for our patients and also demonstrate, in a real way, what people can do every day to make small changes that can have a huge impact,’ Dr Hadian says.

‘In the long term, the ECM paperless system is more cost-effective than keeping traditional paper charts,’ says Dr Sadri. It also reduces toxicity issues associated with dentistry, an important factor in protecting the health of staff and patients. The environmentally friendly system works like this: A first time patient is directed to a computer workstation to fill out their information. Their file is kept in digital format with electronic content management rather than traditional paper files, including charts, x-rays, camera images, prescriptions and clinical notes.

This system saves mounds of paper each week and is an enormous benefit for patients. Everything can be done online, from requesting an appointment, making a payment or accessing their account.

Electronic document management will soon become the standard for dental care. The benefits are a wiser, healthier and greener choice for all.

RIO combines powerful Enterprise Content Management software with sophisticated business process management software for effective information management throughout the enterprise.

Walk into Le Chic Dentistry and you’ll notice space free of clutter, unlike most offices.

What’s different at this forward-thinking practice is there’s no paper to be found anywhere because they have incorporated electronic content management software. ECM can be an expensive initial investment but important and




By: laserficherio

Positive Impact of Document Management on the Economy and the Environment

October 19th, 2009

s are inundated with paper. Personal files mount and must be kept secure. Contracts, proposals, and agreements need to safe and accessible for the operation of any business. Plans, permits, licensing and copyrights, and patents are critical documents and need to be protected. Inventory, buying and managing; records, for taxes and billing, require paper, until now. Whether operating a small business or a large corporation, document management can be overwhelming and is an important issue to be dealt with in a fiscally, secure, and environmentally responsible way. A problem easily managed with business automation software.

All of this paper work takes up space and requires staff to generate, copy, store, and manage so it can be found when needed. Options range from the out-of-sight-out-of mind technique, or “it’s here somewhere”, to paperless, the well managed office using document management software. Of course, the paper management software or business document automation plan is the optimum choice. Going paperless is a good idea.

Increase efficiency by eliminating the need for storage units ,and insuring safety and continuity of records and retrieval. Enterprise content management allows for better tracking of records and makes information available to multi-users on and off site. Document management facilitates a quick search through files, even archived files so that they are readily retrievable.

Striving for a paperless office is good for the earth, our future, and good for business. New contracts are being awarded to “green business”. People are searching for and finding companies with an environmentally friendly attitude. An eco-friendly business has a ready marketing tool.

Going paperless increases overall efficiency, saving time and money and reducing the drain on our natural resources; it makes fiscal sense. The average U.S. office worker generates 2 pounds of paper a day and an office of 1,000 employees may, in effect, use 1,369 trees and produce 300,000 pounds of CO2 yearly. It just makes sense to be a paperless office.

Using document management software and reducing the use of paper saves money and is eco-friendly. Consider that to get that ream of paper, gasoline for logging and transporting trees and power for equipment and paper manufacturing are cumulative drains on the planet’s resources. At the office, power needed to run fax, copier and printer machines is an additional consumption of natural resources. Facilitating a paperless office helps create a healthier planet.


By: Groshan Fabiola