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Online Tool Measures Red Tape Burden on Banks and Other Financial Institutions

The U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee recently unveiled an interesting online tool that helps put in perspective the headache of complying with new regulations imposed on the banking and financial services sectors by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act. The Dodd-Frank Burden Tracker analyzes the red tape line by line, and calculates an estimated number [...]

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White Paper Spotlights Rebate Processing

Rebates are a great tool for product manufacturers and retailers who want to build legions of satisfied, repeat customers. But if the processing of mail-in rebates does not incorporate some sort of digital image capture system, the result can be long turn-around-times and payment hold-ups. When this happens, you’ve just created an army of unhappy [...]

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“Vocabulary of Healthcare Reform” Brings Clarity to Confusing Buzzwords and Acronyms

As a provider of business process management and document processing services for the healthcare industry, DATAMARK has been closely following the progress of healthcare reform. Although the Affordable Care Act is in limbo until a ruling by the Supreme Court (expected in late June), the U.S. healthcare industry is still preparing for a future where [...]

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Healthcare Entities Continue to Lag in ICD-10 Implementation

Healthcare Entities Continue to Lag in ICD-10 Implementation

Latest WEDI Survey Generates an Avalanche of Responses The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange has conducted ICD-10 readiness surveys since 2009 with a trickle of response from a complacent healthcare industry. But with its latest survey, WEDI has at last touched the right nerve—more than 2,500 vendors, payers and providers responded, almost eight times more [...]

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NASSCOM Fires Back

NASSCOM Fires Back

Indian IT-BPO association touts sector’s contribution to the U.S. economy It’s an election year, so presidential candidates are bashing the outsourcing industry as they seek votes from Americans concerned about their job prospects. So it was just a matter of time before India’s National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM), a nonprofit representing the [...]

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Will the iPad and other tablets overtake the PC?

Tablet computing is on everyone’s mind this week, with the anticipated unveiling of Apple’s iPad 3 at a media event Wednesday, March 7 in San Francisco. As usual, the secretive company has been coy about the announcement, teasing the press with an e-mail saying “We have something you really have to see. And touch.” Apple [...]

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HHS Secretary Sebelius Announces New Rules for Electronic Health Records

HHS Secretary Sebelius Announces New Rules for Electronic Health Records

The Department of Health and Human Services recently released new rules regarding the agency’s “carrot or stick” incentives for providers to adopt electronic health record (EHR) technology. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the “stage 2″ rules for providers receiving incentive payments from Medicare and Medicaid to digitize patient’s medical records. To date, over 43,000 providers [...]

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Document Management Trends 2012

Industry Snapshot: Hottest Document Management Verticals for 2012

At the recent Document Manager Service Provider Executive Forum, organizers asked senior executives to name the top two hottest verticals in the industry for 2012. The healthcare sector, which is in the midst of a massive shift to digital recordkeeping, took the top spot at 39 percent. Following at 29 percent were state and local [...]

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