Commercial Record Center Video on Web

You may want to look at these links they are videos that are on Com­mer­cial Records Cen­ter Web­sites as an Adver­tise­ment. As I under­stand it “the Yel­low Pages” actu­ally pro­duces these along with the ad.

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Turn Your Office Processes Green

Turn Your Office Processes Green

TAMPA, Fla., March 29 /PRNewswire/ — With another Earth Day approach­ing, many busi­nesses are look­ing for new ideas on going green. One local expert says chang­ing the way you man­age and dis­pose of files and records can be good for the envi­ron­ment and your business.

“No mat­ter what your busi­ness, chances are you have boxes full of con­fi­den­tial files that, at some point, will need to be dis­posed of,” said Mar­shall Stevens, co-owner of Stevens & Stevens Busi­ness Records Man­age­ment, a full-service records stor­age and man­age­ment cen­ter. “Too often those old files end up in a land­fill, which is bad for the envi­ron­ment and poses a secu­rity prob­lem for your business.”

In order to get a han­dle on your files in an eco-friendly man­ner, Stevens sug­gests estab­lish­ing a records man­age­ment and shred­ding plan. By prop­erly shred­ding and recy­cling, you can ensure a greener out­come that’s secure for your busi­ness. For an addi­tional “green” option, he sug­gests uti­liz­ing soft­ware designed to man­age hard copy files that have been con­verted into elec­tronic for­mat so the amount of paper being used can be reduced.

Stevens says when busi­nesses are look­ing to go dig­i­tal with records, seek a solu­tion that will con­vert all files, no mat­ter what the orig­i­nal for­mat may be, into an elec­tronic for­mat. Then, all files will be housed through a secure, con­tent man­age­ment sys­tem which acts as the new vir­tual file room. “You’ll save on print­ing and stor­age costs, not to men­tion time spent search­ing for mis­placed files,” he said. “You’re also doing your part by help­ing keep our air clean, reduc­ing the amount of trees being cut down and pre­serv­ing water.”

It may seem over­whelm­ing to tackle all this on your own, so Stevens sug­gests part­ner­ing with a firm that spe­cial­izes in eco-friendly doc­u­ment man­age­ment and destruc­tion ser­vices. He says, “They can help ensure things are being done right and in an envi­ron­men­tally friendly way.”

So this Earth Day, con­sider estab­lish­ing a “green” records man­age­ment pol­icy. It’ll improve effi­cien­cies, make your busi­ness more secure and you’ll be kinder to the environment

Stevens & Stevens Busi­ness Records Man­age­ment is a full-service records stor­age and man­age­ment cen­ter pro­vid­ing ser­vices through­out the Tampa Bay area. For more infor­ma­tion, visit www.ssbrm.com and fol­low Stevens & Stevens on Twit­ter at: http://twitter.com/StevensBRM or on Face­book at: http://www.facebook.com/ssbrm.

SOURCE Stevens & Stevens Busi­ness Records Man­age­ment
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New home for millions of military records should be complete next year in St. Louis suburb

4:02 AM CDT, March 25, 2010

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Cre­ation of a new home for stor­age of mil­lions of mil­i­tary records in sub­ur­ban St. Louis is on track to be com­pleted by next year.

The National Per­son­nel Records Cen­ter in St. Louis is the nation’s largest repos­i­tory for mil­i­tary records.

The cen­ter will move to a new, 500,000-square-foot facil­ity in north St. Louis County.

Bryan McGraw of the National Archives and Records Admin­is­tra­tion told KMOX radio on Wednes­day the new facil­ity will allow bet­ter han­dling of the 1.5 mil­lion requests for infor­ma­tion received each year.

The reces­sion slowed and almost derailed the move to the facil­ity. The project was orig­i­nally announced in Sep­tem­ber 2008, days before the finan­cial collapse.

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Infor­ma­tion from: KMOX-AM, http://www.kmox.com

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HHS announces $162 million in 16 state HIE grants

HHS announces $162 mil­lion in 16 state HIE grants
March 15, 2010 | Diana Manos, Senior Editor

HHS Sec­re­tary Kath­leen Sebe­lius
WASHINGTON – The Depart­ment of Health and Human Ser­vices announced Mon­day $162 mil­lion in awards to 16 states and qual­i­fied state des­ig­nated enti­ties for the State Health Infor­ma­tion Exchange Coop­er­a­tive Agree­ment Program.

The fund­ing is part of $2 bil­lion allot­ted under the Amer­i­can Recov­ery and Rein­vest­ment Act (ARRA) to advance health­care IT adoption.

HHS Sec­re­tary Kath­leen Sebe­lius said with the awards announced Mon­day, every state and eli­gi­ble ter­ri­tory has now been awarded funds under this program.

“These crit­i­cal invest­ments will help unleash the power of health infor­ma­tion tech­nol­ogy to cut costs, elim­i­nate paper­work and help doc­tors deliver high-quality, coor­di­nated care to patients,” Sebe­lius said.
“States are impor­tant part­ners in improv­ing and expand­ing our elec­tronic health records sys­tem,” she said. “By improv­ing the secure exchange of elec­tronic health records between providers and hos­pi­tals within and across states, these awards mark a sig­nif­i­cant step in bring­ing our health sys­tem into the 21st century.”

David Blu­men­thal, national coor­di­na­tor for health infor­ma­tion tech­nol­ogy said Monday’s awards are crit­i­cal to enabling care coor­di­na­tion and improv­ing the qual­ity and effi­ciency of healthcare.

With all states now empow­ered to start their jour­ney toward iden­ti­fy­ing inno­v­a­tive ways to break down these bar­ri­ers that pre­vent the seam­less exchange of infor­ma­tion, we can give patients the access to care they deserve and expect, Blu­men­thal said.

On Feb­ru­ary 12, 2010, HHS awarded $385 mil­lion to 40 states and state des­ig­nated enti­ties for the state HIE grant pro­gram. The awards announced Mon­day com­plete the award­ing of coop­er­a­tive agree­ments funded by this pro­gram, Sebe­lius said.

Agency of Health Care Admin­is­tra­tion (FL) $20,738,582

The Mary­land Depart­ment of Health and Men­tal Hygiene $9,313,924

New Jer­sey Health Care Facil­i­ties Financ­ing Author­ity $11,408,594

South Car­olina Depart­ment of Health & Human Ser­vices $9,576,408

Iowa Depart­ment of Pub­lic Health $8,375,000

Idaho Health Data Exchange $5,940,500

State of North Dakota, Infor­ma­tion Tech­nol­ogy Depart­ment $5,343,733

State of Alaska $4,963,063

Nebraska Depart­ment of Admin­is­tra­tive Ser­vices $6,837,180

South Dakota Depart­ment of Health $6,081,750

Depart­ment of Pub­lic Health, State of CT $7,297,930

State of Mis­sis­sippi $10,387,000

Indi­ana Health Infor­ma­tion Tech­nol­ogy, Inc. $10,300,000

HealthShare Mon­tana $5,767,926

Texas Health and Human Ser­vices Com­mis­sion $28,810,208

Louisiana Health Care Qual­ity Forum $10,583,000

Total $161,724,798

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Iron Mountain Fine-Tunes Cloud Storage for Medical Records

By: Chris Preimes­berger 2010-03-01

Iron Mountain’s Dig­i­tal Record Cen­ter for Med­ical Images is designed to back up and archive dig­i­tal med­ical infor­ma­tion, which often includes large, bulky X-ray files. Due to the sen­si­tiv­ity and impor­tance of med­ical data, another level of redun­dancy is built into the package.

As data stor­age gets more sophis­ti­cated, with intel­li­gent tier­ing, auto­matic dedu­pli­ca­tion and other emi­nently use­ful fea­tures, some ven­dors are begin­ning to fine-tune their stor­age prod­ucts for use in spe­cific ver­ti­cal mar­kets such as health care and finance.

For exam­ple, Iron Moun­tain on March 1 revealed a newly upgraded ver­sion of its cloud stor­age ser­vice specif­i­cally for med­ical records. The com­pany made the announce­ment at the HIMSS Health­care IT Con­fer­ence and Exhi­bi­tion in Boston.

IM’s Dig­i­tal Record Cen­ter for Med­ical Images is designed to back up and archive dig­i­tal med­ical infor­ma­tion, which often includes large, bulky X-ray files.

Due to the impor­tant and sen­si­tive nature of med­ical data, another level of redun­dancy is built into the package.

IM claims that this spe­cial­ized ver­sion of its ser­vice pro­vides higher lev­els of flex­i­bil­ity, increased scal­a­bil­ity, and bet­ter access and secu­rity than its stan­dard cloud stor­age because it adds an optional on-site stor­age com­po­nent to work with the exist­ing cloud service.

The com­pany also said health care orga­ni­za­tions can con­fig­ure the ser­vice to meet access and dis­as­ter recov­ery requirements.

Dig­i­tal Record Cen­ter for Med­ical Images offers these new capa­bil­i­ties, as listed by Iron Mountain:

New Ser­vice Options—three ser­vice plans for meet­ing orga­ni­za­tions’ unique needs for pro­tec­tion and redun­dancy: Mir­rored Cloud, stor­ing two copies of each med­ical image off­site; Hybrid Cloud, stor­ing one copy onsite and one off­site; and Hybrid Cloud2, stor­ing a sin­gle copy onsite and two copies offsite.

Data Shut­tle Service—allows orga­ni­za­tions to move large vol­umes of data to Iron Mountain’s data cen­ter faster than they could over the Internet.

Optional Onsite Storage—In addi­tion to cloud stor­age, a copy of archived data can also be stored onsite, enabling local access to archives while pro­vid­ing a sec­ond copy for disaster-recovery purposes.

Dig­i­tal Record Cen­ter for Med­ical Images is avail­able now.

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