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Your medical practice is also a business. Don’t forget to ensure your back-office processes are healthy.

While your goal as a provider of healthcare services (primary care to dermatology and anything in between) is to help your patients; you’re also operating a business. Like any business, you need to cost-effectively manage your back-office processes. While getting your patient information under control is important (read our post on 7 features you need to look for in an EHR), managing your business documents is equally important.

If you’re calling it a photocopier, you could be overlooking productivity possibilities of your law firm's multifunction copier.

MFPs. MFDs. Copiers. Digital copiers. All in one devices.

Photocopiers don’t exist any longer.

Well, let me restate that – no one is making photocopiers any longer. All copiers made today are digital copiers. If you go to a library or college, you might still encounter a photocopier.

Why am I talking about this? Why does it matter?

7 features to look for in your next – or first – electronic health record system.

This right electronic health record (EHR) system can benefit both your medical office and your patients. That's because this type of system keeps patients' health information in digital format and therefore easily accessible by authorized medical professionals, which is especially helpful for patients being treated by multiple doctors at different offices. Considering the convenience of an EHR -- along with available incentive payments -- it's easy to see why about 59% of medical providers now use one. But more than half of those providers have reported being unhappy with their EHR system. If you want a better chance at EHR satisfaction, make sure the system you choose has the following features.

uniFLOW Online (SaaS) provides the benefits of device authentication, secure follow me printing, secure mobile printing, full cost control with online reporting, and more — right from the cloud.

For many organizations, printing continues to be an enormous cost issue that remains entirely untracked and uncontrolled.  Pretty amazing since managing print output has been such a hot topic for so long.  Well, consider granting us an indulgence (and a bit of your precious time) and give us another try with another approach.

We believe finding a solution that provides practical insight into your print environment is essential. 

EMRs and EHRs both help manage patient information; but they aren’t the same.

As a healthcare provider – doctors’ office, medical clinic, critical care facility, etc. – you’ve got a lot of paperwork to manage. Insurance forms, explanation of benefits, and, of course, patient records. We keep coming across electronic health records (EHR) and electronic medical records (EMR) as we speak to our customers and potential customers.

Some people use the terms interchangeably, kind of like they use "health" and "medical" as synonyms. However, there are some major differences

Buying a copier locally will likely be a better fit and provide better service for your business.

What’s not to like about visiting a local farmers’ market and buying produce fresh out of the ground or off the vine? Not only does it taste great; the feeling of supporting the local community is nice too.

Supporting your neighbors down the street or the people you see in church on a Sunday is a good feeling.

Buying copiers is, a little, like buying vegetables from a farmers’ market versus going to a grocery chain. The freshness, service, and local support are hard to match.

Healthcare providers need to know that protected health information could be stored in their copiers – and accessible to hacking.

Digital copiers are essential components of modern doctors' offices. They enable you to improve your communication, increase your productivity and save money. Despite these benefits, copiers are a potential source of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) privacy and security risks.

Legal document management software and copiers can help support your litigation every step of the way.

Let’s start with the obvious – there are lots of documents to manage in any legal activity.

I’ve written a few times about the benefits of legal document management, so I won’t rehash those arguments here.

Too often, we see law firms still managing their files as paper documents.

Law firms can automate document workflows directly to Worldox from MEAP-enabled copiers.

For law firms – when it comes to maintaining efficient workflows – technology plays a leading role. With the right technology, law firms can save valuable time and money by limiting the number of manual steps involved in their business.

And Canon, a leader in digital imaging solutions, offers both hardware and software technologies that can help your law firm do exactly that

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In today's production print world, controlling costs and scaling the challenges necessary to keep moving upward takes concentration, diligence, and most importantly—a bold carefully navigated approach.

With business in a constant state of flux, improving competitive differentiation through high-quality communications while managing costs is more important than ever—especially for