The Paperless Office in MA
A paperless office is often ideal for any business—but 95% of them still have their documents and company information laying on desks or stored in filing cabinets. Although documents are easy to access, over time these papers begin to pile up, more filing cabinets are added, and suddenly one day you are using a single office just to store your files.
In most cases, when businesses make the decision to go digital, they hire a professional document scanning service in order to convert paper documents to electronic versions. With newly scanned digital documents from Boston Scanning Services, businesses can eliminate the chance of older document versions being wrongly edited or distributed, streamline the flow of documents, and help make their files more accessible to employees.
To learn more about any of our available services, just give us a call at (508) 425-4100, or simply fill out the form to your right to request free medical record scanning and storage quotes from Boston Scanning Services today!
Is Your Boston Business Thinking About Going Paperless? Consider These Questions First
There’s a chance you’ll come across some issues if you decide to make the transition to the paperless office for your business—but using this handy checklist you can avoid some of the pitfalls associated with the paperless conversion:
- Are you going to save a significant amount of money spent on paper, postage, ink and other supplies each month?
- Will file organization be easier by going paperless and making use of an ongoing scanning service?
- Will it be easier to access documents through an electronic management system than through the system you’re using now?
- How do you back up your business files now—what happens when the system crashes?
- Will record scanning save you considerable storage space in your office?
- How much time to do you spend shuffling through stacks of paper? Will electronic documents eliminate some or all of that?
- Will confidential files and documents containing personal or critical business information be more secure through document scanning and electronic storage?
- Will your new system be easy to use, and will your employees find it easier to use digitized documents?
If you can answer all these questions with confidence, then you’re ready to go paperless! If you have questions, or want more information, just give Boston Scanning Services a call at (508) 425-4100, or fill out the form to the right to request your free document scanning quotes.
Federal Laws Encouraging the Adoption Electronic Document Storage
- In 1996, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was passed which addresses the security and privacy of health data. The standards are meant to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the nation’s health care system by encouraging the widespread use of electronic data in the US health care system.
- In 2002, the federal government introduced the introduced the Sarbanes-Oxley Act which requires businesses to properly maintain financial records. That includes being able to retrieve them when required. This is significantly easier when the documents are stored electronically.
- In 2003, Congress passed the Fair and Accurate Credit Reporting Act (FACTA) which also requires business to properly safeguard and store personal information of employees and customers and properly destroy them. Obviously, if documents are systematically converted to a digital format, it is easier to store, retrieve, and ultimately destroy this sensitive information.
Many offices still operate under a flood of paper documents. Employees maintain a personal archive, each office maintains another archive, and there is also an official company archive. Since the storage required for paper documents grows at a rate of 20-25% every year, many companies are now looking to document scanning and paperless storage to to help meet their storage needs.
Consider this—a single 80 gigabyte hard drive can hold 2.7 million documents and costs only $120. In order to store 2.7 million paper documents would require 68 four-drawer file cabinets, and the cost of one cabinet itself is more than $120. With all this to keep in mind, it is no wonder that a growing number of companies are making the decision to go paperless. With the help of Boston Scanning Services your business can do it too!
Get Free Quotes on Document Scanning Services in Boston Today
To more about converting to the paperless office with Boston Scanning Services, just give us a call at (508) 425-4100, or fill out the form to your right to get free quotes on document scanning and paperless storage today!
Boston Scanning Services
156 Crescent St
Brockton, MA 02302
Phone: (508) 425-4100
E-Mail: info@scanningserviceboston.com