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QAI recently signed a contract to lease a new corporate headquarters facility in Maple Lawn, Md.…Read More
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QAI recently received the award for “Top Federal Certified Solution Provider (CSP)” from Kofax…Read More
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For the sixth year in a row, QAI hosted its Annual Trophy Striper Tournament for 50 clients and employees…Read More
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QAI recently teamed with Toronto based Hummingbird, a global provider of integrated enterprise content management(ECM) and network connectivity solutions…Read More
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QAI recently became a Premier Solutions Reseller by the Eastman Kodak Company…Read More
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 Welcome to Quality Insights,Quality Associates’ corporate newsletter aimed at the document management and quality assurance communities. We hope you are enjoying our new look for Quality Insights, and find it beneficial.
On June 22, for the second year in a row, QAI invited our clients, partners and staff together for another informative, educational and entertaining User Conference. For those of you who missed this year’s conference, it was a great opportunity to learn the latest document management technologies and to network with our peers, our staff and our partners.
First and foremost, we would like to extend our gratitude to our clients and partners who were involved in making this annual event a huge success. In this issue, you will find a recap of this year’s conference. Looking ahead to 2007, we will be sure to keep you abreast of the details for next year’s conference.
Just a reminder—we want to hear from you! Please submit any newsworthy topics you would like to see in future issues.
Thank you!
Amy Knight
Marketing Manager
Quality Associates, Inc.
aknight@qualityassociatesinc.com
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On average, Fish and Richardson (F&R) files more than 4,000 patent applications each year. Of these applications, F&R obtains more than 1,500 patents each year. Not surprisingly, F&R handles massive amounts of print documentation related to all aspects of the patent application process.
The process used by F&R to manage its paper documentation required much time and effort. When print documentation arrived at F&R via mail or fax, F&R’s support staff needed to manually review and route the paperwork to the appropriate staff members. Often, multiple copies had to be made and distributed to the appropriate lawyers and other personnel. This process added an extra day or two to the distribution process. In addition, when an email arrived, it needed to be routed to the appropriate staff and there was no way to easily access and sort through all emails.
To facilitate the exchange of information among offices and streamline procedures, F&R sought to better manage its incoming volumes of print documentation by switching to an electronic system for content and document management. F&R worked with a few systems integrators to develop a solution, and had created an interface for their system. However, the firm found that it was in need of a higher level of customized support, and decided to partner with a new solutions provider.
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The promise of an accessible health history that speaks volumes when seconds count. Imagine: With a few mouse clicks, seeing on a computer monitor, every relevant piece of information that you are authorized to access pertaining to a patient.
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Much of the required technology exits today. But according to a 2005 RAND Corporation study cited in the September 14, 2005 issue of “Health Affairs,” only about 20 to 25 percent of hospitals and 15 to 20 percent of physician offices have adopted any type of patient information system, and those systems are generally limited in their ability to share information with other providers.
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Fortunately, clinicians and healthcare administrators can jumpstart an important facet of the EMR without waiting for consensus. By digitizing documents into electronic images, paperwork such as reports and forms can be posted and shared online.
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The Food and Drug Administration contracted with QAI to manage the FDA/CDRH conversion project. This project consists of pickup and delivery, document preparation, scanning, indexing, PDF conversion, CD/DVD mastering and storage of pre-market approval and legacy submissions. Each submission ranges from 8,000-15,000 pages totaling approximately 5,000,000 pages per year. Once the document conversion process is completed, the images and metadata will be quality checked and then delivered for upload into the Oracle-based Electronic Document Management System (EDMS).
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The Anne Arundel County Government recently awarded QAI with a contract to provide an effective and rapid approach to their existing and on-going document management requirements. Details of the contract include converting approximately 975,000 hardcopy images to digital format (TIFF) and to PDF “Searchable” format using OCR technology.
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