The National Health Service (NHS), the UK's publicly funded healthcare system, aims to become paperless by 2018. The idea of digitization was put forward by the Secretary of State for Health Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt in January 2013, with the intention to improve services...
Employee Data Breach in UPMC More Extensive than Predicted
Data breach is a serious issue affecting many businesses. Despite the security measures taken, data breach or identity theft happens, even for the personal data of employees. Data breaches not only cost a company's time and money, but also affect its public trust and...
Trends in the Digital Publishing Industry
With the rising popularity of electronic reading, many authors and publishers are striving to provide users a quality e-book experience, while managing costs and adhering to standards. When it comes to electronic publications, quality assurance is undoubtedly the most...
Chippewa Falls District Sets Up Document Management System for HR
Every human resource department faces the difficulties of managing mountains of paper documents. Handling HR documents involve huge challenge such as addressing unauthorized access, risk of losing files, high administrative and paper storage costs, and much more....
Important Trends in Healthcare Outsourcing
Though the healthcare market in the United States is rapidly emerging, the market is faced with achieving conflicting objectives such as improved service quality and reduced cost. Healthcare providers (hospitals, nursing homes, physicians, and specialized therapeutic...
AUB Teams Up with US Libraries to Digitize Historical Arabic Collections
With the development of new technologies, libraries the world over are moving away from traditional systems into digital mode to better serve the needs of library administrators and users. Factors such as increased operational costs, decline in acquisition of library...
Advantages of Conversions to Excel Format
Excel, the spreadsheet component of the Microsoft Office Package, has wide applications in business. If you need to analyze and interpret complex numerical data presented in Word, PDF or any other file format, Excel conversion is the solution. Businesses use Excel...
How to Convert/Edit a PDF File
Let us start from the very basic question on PDF, "What is PDF?" PDF or Portable Document Format is one of the popular eBook formats, introduced by Adobe Systems in 1991. The company released it as an open standard format in 2008, making it free for developers to work...
Digitizing Civil War Letters
Civil war letters provide an unparalleled connection to the past and need to be preserved in the best way possible. Letters written by patriots during civil wars are priceless resources for future generations. These letters may contain individual stories related to...
Data Mining as a Tool for Fraud Detection
In today's world, business processes depend largely on technology. With increase in automation, corporate fraud is also on the rise. Unscrupulous individuals exploit weaknesses in security and controls to commit crimes that cost firms millions of dollars. Businesses...