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How to Introduce Your Records Retention Schedule to Employees
Helping Employees Adjust to a Records Retention Schedule Records retention, the safeguarding and storing of important documents, will be more efficient if every employee is familiar with your...
How Long Should You Retain Insurance Records?
Should you keep it or toss it? Tossing out that document too soon can end up costing you and your business. Depending on the type of insurance records you have, you’ll want to follow specific...
Patient Portals for Records Retention
Patient portals save administrative time and improve patient care in a variety of ways. They empower patients to take a proactive approach to their healthcare, although there are many in-office...
4 Benefits of Medical Record Scanning
Scanning your medical records doesn’t just help your medical practice go paperless, but is also key to the success of your document retention policy. Scanning past and present records also saves...
How to Navigate HIPAA in the Electronic Age
As digital and medical technologies continue to evolve, healthcare organizations and physician practices face continuous pressure to protect and secure patient privacy. Simultaneously, technology...
Document Hoarding: A Case for Business Records Retention Schedules
Several organizations have initiated a business records retention schedule to counter the continuous accumulation of data. Nonetheless, many businesses still believe that data hoarding is a useful...
Records retention
The Skupsky Method
The Skupsky Retention Method includes the same components found in traditional records retention programs. It differs more in the process than the appearance. Legal retention periods represent the period you keep records for legal reasons. User retention periods represent the period record users need records…
What You Need to Know and Do in Response to Changes in the Law
I am generally horrified by what is being written by attorneys who know absolutely nothing about records management issues. The presentation of the webinar, What You Need to Know and Do in Response to Changes in the Law, with transcript and presentation PDF, is available for viewing…
Destroy Your Client Files Under a Records Retention Program
Destroying client files under an appropriate retention policy may be legally permitted, protect the clients’ interest, etc. Most attorneys elect to keep their client files forever, believing that this reflects their legal duty to protect client interests. Some believe that client files belong to the clients…
Law and records management
The Bucket Theory – Getting It Right!
The Bucket Theory - Getting It Right! By Donald S. Skupsky, JD, CRM, FAI, MIT Few topics have fostered more debates in the last few years than the optimal number of record series categories or...
Evolving Legal Definition and Legal Expectation for Records
In this presentation, Information Requirements Clearinghouse examines the changing legal definition and expectations for records retention and records deletion. Please wait while the...
Legal Issues that Effect a Records and Information Management Program
Presentation at 2014 ARMA Conference by Donald Skupsky concerning various legal issues that affect information governance and records management programs. Please use this link to view...