excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 99% Small law office looks to go mobile Summary: Small law office looks to go mobile. Groupwise can launch Watermark documents or link them to an E-mail document. It tells me where I can find it. Reading a 30-page document in an E-mail is too time-consuming. All I need to know is where I can get the document." 84% Insurance records management earns million... Summary: By Kim Ann Zimmermann HealthTrust (Nashville, TN) is a document management consulting firm that, among other things, works for hospitals that want to be sure their Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement requests are coded properly. "We felt there had to be a way to centralize the process while having the documents remain at the hospital," she says. The documents are scanned and coded elec... 82% Process awards honor excellence in solutions Summary: Process awards honor excellence in solutions. Army's Gulf War project wins Vision Award. AIIM (Silver Spring, MD) and the consulting group Kinetic Information (Waltham, MA) named the winners of the 1997 Process Innovation Awards. Presented at the AIIM show, the awards recognize "the most innovative corporate applications of information management technologies." A special Vision Award honoring... 82% Component success stories Input/capture Summary: They needed a simple "file and find" imaging system, Nowak said. "We are always looking for technology with a customer service impact, and this definitely had a customer service impact," he said. With component imaging, there are no assumptions. "The way service bureau customers want images is never the same," said Naghshineh. This isn't to say that the component imaging approach is just for... 81% Swept Away Summary: What features are installed versus released? This is very different from document management and control of existing documents. That's the market landscape; how do the players fit in? The Web version of the product is named Accellera, which allows for access to the document repository over the Web. Interleaf fits where the documents are complex and business critical. 81% Cox Health improves records access Reallocatin... Summary: Cox Health improves records access. While centralizing records was the goal, there were some concerns about security. "This is where there was the most immediate need for quick access to patient records," Nelson says. Only those needing immediate access were given a passcode to access patient records. "While we want everyone who needs access to the records to have that access, we haven't opened... 81% Awards for innovation Summary: Imaging World, April 7th, 1997 Awards for innovation. The research and consulting group Kinetic Information (Waltham, MA) has teamed with AIIM International (Silver Spring, MD) to create the new Process Innovation Awards. Focusing on the business benefits reaped by user organizations, the awards recognize visionary implementors of technology systems. Improvement must be demonstrated in at least... 80% Microfiche becoming a memory Summary: While it has an electronic laboratory information system, the center was still sending reports from that system out to be microfiched. "We wanted to find a better system for storing, indexing and retrieving laboratory information. I wanted to get away from relying on microfilm," Foret says. What it decided on was a link from their laboratory information system to a MedPlus (Cincinnati) OptiMaxx... 80% Amtrak traces steps of Empire State Building sh Summary: Imaging World, April 21st, 1997 Amtrak traces steps of. Now, instead of three people, there is one person performing that job. "But we proved to ourselves we could handle a high-volume period." He also preaches regular maintenance of the scanner. Amtrak also eventually want to be able to fax out from the system. 79% The Buzz Summary: The Buzz. For better or for worse. Well, this joint FileNet-Novell software is currently available-IF you buy it with a FileNet server. "They're not even on our radar screen," the vendor claims. Or should someone get a better radar screen? 78% In the law, time is money Summary: In the law, time is money. The system must organize documents in a database, access them quickly and easily, and search the database by key words. The law firm outsources their scanning to HLA Imaging (Toronto). When preparing for cases, attorneys sift through thousands of documents and focus on the facts important to the case. With a computer in the courtroom, the attorneys can access the... 78% LaPorte gains efficiency with fingerprinting s... Summary: By Kim Ann Zimmermann The goal at LaPorte Hospital (LaPorte, IN) was to have a unique identifier for patients. The only unique identifier the hospital could come up with was the patient's fingerprints. "We didn't want to replace the records management system we had. We just wanted a more efficient way of identifying our patients," Shebel says. The hospital also wants to scan a patient's... 78% Raytheon shares data across the sea Electronic Summary: "We needed data in both locations. A system configured with user involvement. We had two gentlemen in the U.K. who were also involved--one engineer and one involved in system support." Currently, the system contains all the product and maintenance data on the Beech corporate jets. "Probably the first benefit was to have all data accessible from any point," Tos says. 78% Watermark integration key feature of Saros new Summary: Watermark integration key. feature of Saros new release. The out-of-the-box solution integrates with Watermark (Burlington, MA) imaging software. New features include compound document support, multi-library searching and the ability to store multiple forms of the same document. The integration with Watermark is not surprising, Watermark and Saros were both acquired by FileNet in the past year... 77% Imaging bails out Orange County Summary: Law firms, however, are another matter. That meant the firm could accomplish the same amount of work in less time. A law firm, after all, makes money by charging its clients for the hours it works on their cases. Improved productivity meant a job could be accomplished in less time. That, in turn, meant that the law firm would be billing its clients for fewer hours and producing less income. 76% Software promotes dialog between designers, shop floor Summary: Software promotes dialog between designers, shop floor. AccraTronics benefits from view and markup capabilities. To make the transition successfully from a military to a commercial supplier, AccraTronics knew that it had to abandon its reliance on paper and adopt a computer-based solution that permitted a virtually real-time electronic dialog between designers and shop floor staff regarding all... 76% Voice of the future Interactive voice respons... Summary: Interactive voice response. Many of the callers need basic information about their accounts, such as "when is my next payment due?" Most of those requests can be handled by the customers themselves, without an operator, using an innovative approach to information management. Information Management Consultants (IMC, McLean, VA) and Voicetek (Chelmsford, MA) worked together on an interactive voice... 75% 40 companies to watch in 1997 Summary: They are: R.E. Ray Edwards, Apex D.E. Dan Elam, IMERGE B. T.S. Robert Smallwood, Image Associates S. 75% The latest news in ... Scanners Trend Applicat... Summary: Speed. * Is the scanner simplex or duplex? For the OCR accuracy test, we scanned sets of test documents of varying weights, qualities and text sizes. All scanners provide default settings to simplify configuration. Some scanners can detect misfeeds and doubles. 74% IW Special Report From The Channel Summary: The users just don't know what they need." "I don't know of any vendor that does that well," he comments. Just as vendors are obliged to educate their resellers, so too are those resellers responsible for educating their users, the experts declare. * "Distributors are not set up to support software, and they end up in the middle between you and the vendor," says Johnson. Johnson believes good...
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