When Datascan started to scan documents for GPs in Ireland over 12 years ago it was a new venture for the more progressive practices. The early adopters were seen as innovative and trail blazers. These days having a paperless practice has become more common due to the many benefits it brings. Best Practice All organisations… Read more »
Quality and Compliance – Document Scanning
A business that takes quality and compliance seriously will keep their attention on every stage of the process of delivery to ensure the desired level of quality is reached. Part of this way of operating will be to have a series of procedures and processes in place that will ensure consistency at every point. Performance… Read more »
End of Year Clean Up
We might all be in holiday mode by now as we are winding down for Christmas. Hopefully you are looking back on the year and congratulating yourself on some great achievements. Before we start a new year (in fact a new decade) we could be using these days to do a bit of an end… Read more »
Pieta House – The Journey to Digital
In January 2006 Pieta House opened its doors in Lucan, Co. Dublin. Pieta House offers crisis intervention and prevention counselling services for those at risk of suicide and self-harm and those who have been bereaved by suicide. All services at Pieta House are completely free of charge Pieta House now has 15 counselling centres nationwide… Read more »
5 Great Things about Collaborative Working
A group of people working together, pooling their knowledge and skills to complete a task. Working as a team but in a more fluid way that promotes innovation. That is what collaborative working is all about and it’s a real buzz term now. There are lots of positive reasons behind the concept, here are the… Read more »
Scanning Sensitive Documents
We have read the shocking stories about random files and documents being discovered by members of the public. The personal files being found in a park by a dog walker, the briefcase containing legal files left on a train, health records found on the side of a dual carriageway, medical records found on an Irish… Read more »
Women in business – National Women’s Enterprise Day
Over a thousand women in Ireland start a business every month. When we heard this statistic, it made us stop and think about all the women we work with each and every day. Our team in Datascan is led by a woman, our staff are predominantly women and the majority of our clients are also… Read more »
The Digital Workplace
According to a recent article in the Irish Independent our economy has now become digital and Ireland ranks sixth in Europe for digitisation. Ireland is also now ranked number one in Europe for the number of SMEs selling online, for e-commerce turnover and for the percentage of SMEs selling online across borders. Digitisation Both private… Read more »
GDPR Training for Nursing Home Sector
Datascan extend an invitation to all involved in the nursing home industry to a very special event. Our full day GDPR Training is provided by Datatrails, our trainer of choice and experts in GDPR in order to provide clarity and solutions to Nursing Homes. Date: 10th October 2019 Venue: Westpoint Business Centre, Barrack Street, Charlestown,… Read more »
Keep it client focused when it comes to documents
While at a recent training event the organiser proudly handed us a copy of each of the presentations on the way out. I watched as everybody was weighed down with reams of paper, trying to stuff them into bags or under arms as they exited the building. I wondered how long they would last until… Read more »