With the first month of 2023 now in the books it’s a great time to assess how our personal and professional objectives are progressing while also keeping a pulse on paperless innovation and how we can apply it to our New Year resolutions. At the start of any new year there is often great hope and optimism for improvement and growth and learning how others are leveraging going paperless is a great way to elevate while others are still dragging behind. Keeping up with all of the top going paperless news stories on the internet not only will be able to enhance our careers and daily activities but also intensify our knowledge of just how crucial file shredding, scanning, Ocr extract, and management is to the future success of governments, businesses, medical buildings, doctors offices, real estate businesses, financial institutions, insurance outlets, healthcare groups, law agency, and so much more.

January 2023 Paperless Industry News Roundup Story #1: Paperless Billing and Payment Plans For Baltimore Water Customers

Baltimore’s Mayor Brandon Scott and Department of Public Works (DPW) Director Mitchell recently announced the launch of a paperless Water Billing program, and a new payment plan system, “PromisePay” for Baltimore City residents. To join the paperless water billing program, residents can simply visit the Department of Public Works’ online Customer Self-Service Portal, where they can create an account or log into an existing account to opt-in. Life will surely become a lot easier while also protecting the environment with the more paperless options we are giving.

January 2023 Paperless Industry News Roundup Story #2: Canada Switching To Paperless Money

Canada is planning on phasing out paper money and replacing it with all-plastic currency notes made out of a single thin sheet of polymer plastic material. Recently the country introduced the first of the polymer plastic notes which was the $100 bill. The Bank of Canada noted that the new bills contain leading-edge security features that make them difficult to counterfeit and easy to trace and track. The bank made a social media YouTube video post to detail the security features and to help Canadians ensure that they aren’t being duped by counterfeiters. Canada will introduce plastic $50 notes in March, and plastic $5 and $10 bills will come out by the end of 2013.

January 2023 Paperless Industry News Roundup Story #3: St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton Going Fully Paperless

St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton says it’s transitioning to become a “fully paperless organization” in the wake of an audit by Ontario’s privacy commissioner that found misdirected faxes and other privacy breaches at the hospital. The review underscores the risks fax machines have on personal health information and the need to replace them with more secure forms of communication technology noted Ontario privacy commissioner Patricia Kosseim. In light of all the new changes the hospital noted that “St. Joe’s has since implemented a ‘digital first, no fax’ policy, which means, wherever possible, paper is no longer fed into a fax machine to communicate information,”.

At Digiscan we go above and beyond to cultivate professional partnerships with those entities interested in going paperless, paper shredding, file scanning services, documentation management, and paper document support that facilitate efficiency, effectiveness, and environmental friendliness. If you want to discuss any details about going paperless for your personal or professional aspirations we are always around to help with any going paperless and digital file management projects you may want to complete in 2023.