Prognostications and predictions are inherently flawed. Does anyone really believe Punxsutawney Phil is a reliable weather forecaster? And how many of us, in our predictions of what would happen in ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. As data creation and retention rates continue to increase, the time frame for active data ...

Long-term data storage can be done in the cloud, on disk drives, and optical disks, but each has some drawbacks. Long-term storage—archiving—requires a very different approach than backup and recovery ...

From reams of paper stashed in filing cabinets to digital folders housing historical data, medical record archiving has changed dramatically in the last two decades. As organizations transition to new ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. It’s been reported that the average health system manages 18 different electronic medical ...

If you’ve ever had to sort through old technical documents, wondering what still has value and what can be safely tossed, you can identify with the quandary of Thomas Levy, UCSD professor of ...

The road is not as smooth as it looks when healthcare facilities are looking to update information systems, speed through M&A, or plan an expansion to create more competitive and comprehensive ...

AltaMed, a 35-location health system in Southern California, recently moved from its NextGen electronic health record to an Epic EHR, which left patient records in multiple systems. The health system ...

When Pope John Paul II died in April, editors at The Dallas Morning News quickly pulled together a photo retrospective of the pontiff’s life – a project they would have considered impractical not long ...

At the very least, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which took effect Dec. 1, are forcing many IT managers to take a second look at their electronic record-archiving policies. That, observers say ...

It seems like only yesterday we covered a project using QR codes to archive data on paper (OK, it was last Thursday), so here’s another way to do it, this time with a dedicated codec using the full ...

Hewlett-Packard Co. today said it will launch new tools to help businesses archive, access and protect data. Following a fast-growing industry trend, HP’s new StorageWorks Continuous Information ...