For years we have all had to box up paper forms of one kind or another. Then we ship them off to Lone Mountain or someother company and then pay a monthly fee for them to store them.

Do we need to be spending the money we are on the storage of all this paper? I don't think so.

So why are we? We don't know what is there, what we can get rid of or how to get rid of it.

My idea would be to create a short focused campain to all managers to reduce the standing costs associated with paper storage. We need to provide all managers with the informaiton about what needs to be saved and for how long. As well as how to have the papaer we don't need to stroe be destroyed appropriately.

I know from my experience that there is a signiciant upfront cost to destroying documents but the money is recouped in a number of months in most cases.

Not to mention the benefit of haveint less PHI information that could possibly become an issue.

Thanks for considering.

Chris Holland