Electronic health records (EHRs) have been in use since the 1960s. U.S. rural hospital leaders and administrators face significant pressure to implement health information technology because of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. However, some leaders and managers of small rural hospital lack strategies to develop and implement…

Carol Harrison is the registrar at the College of Southern Maryland, and back in the days of paper, she used to have a problem: keeping track of students' records, especially as they moved from one department to another, and through one process or system after another. It wasn't that the records disappeared; they were just, well, occasionally hard…

This report presents standardized records management procedures. Its purpose is to provide Maryland State public school systems guidelines and standards for the establishment of effective records retention and disposition programs. These guidelines are consistent with legal requirements imposed by Maryland law. The report contains approved records…