excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 100% 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. 88% 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... 88% 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." 88% 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... 88% Automated cleanup rids systems of worthless im... Summary: Future forms will be measured against that form and will be adjusted for skew and other attributes against the original form. "This is especially important when you are doing recognition on particular zones on a form," says Macciola. The forms recognition capability will also scale the image to match the form. For example, contrast may be more important than skew, but OCR readabiliy in a... 85% 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... 85% 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... 84% 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... 83% 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. 82% 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... 81% Display for document imaging A product sample... Summary: The 21-in. and 21-in. The PrecisionView 21, a 21-in. The 21-in. to 21-in. 81% Making a name for yourself Summary: Making a name for yourself. Image is everything, but name recognition counts. What many users need is beyond their reach. What they can afford-and still trust-won't meet the need. All it had to do was lend its name. 80% 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. 80% 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... 80% Caution- technology convergence ahead Summary: Studies in the late 1970s demonstrated that while it was advantageous to use technology to create and manage office documents, there was a need to tie workers together because, after all, workers need to engage each other in their daily activities (the first glimmer of workflow awareness! the office automation manager). Developing an image. At that point, users could think of managing published... 78% Scanner/Web/VAR Beats Summary: Intrafed continues on the scene. BancTec announced a distribution agreement with TextWare. The Web beat. "We believe that publishing on- and off-line go hand in hand on the Web and CD, and we believe that automating the process is critical to the success of the project." Now they are asking how to solve problems." 78% CCIM and the banking enterprise Summary: Mainly because this technology produces positive effects in the customers' back office while being more cost and time effective for the bank. Now is the time to look at alternative distribution channels and find ways to move their customers to a cheaper, more customer-centric way of making transactions." Customers should have one place they can call and find out anything they need. * Making card... 78% Handwriting recognition gets real Summary: Handwriting recognition gets real. These enable ICR integrators to cope with the idiosyncrasies of industry-specific forms. What's new? What about handwriting recognition? The new company was formed to concentrate solely on recognizing natural handwriting. 77% Barcodes enhance airport security Summary: Barcodes enhance airport security. A product designed to enhance airport and passenger security has been released by Software Technology Inc.FotoTag permits airport security to track employees, vendors, visitors, passengers and baggage from check-in to boarding and beyond. Matching barcodes are attached to the passenger's boarding passes. The photo images confirm that the person bearing the... 77% But who exactly is TED SMITH? Summary: But Ted Smith's history is anything but "low-key." Something else is working here. If you have something, they want to take it away from you. Does that tell you something about Ted Smith?" Actually, he probably doesn't expect everybody to be happy, although that would be nice.
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