As we've blogged about before, repeatedly, President-Elect Barack Obama's stated commitment to make all healthcare records electronic presents a unique opportunity for the document imaging industry, in terms of immediate, steady work but also as a means of proving that "going paperless" is possible and good even with sensitive documents.
But Obama is not alone in his thinking. In fact, the goverment, famous for stacking piles of papers on top of piles of papers, has been using document imaging technology frequently over the past decade.
Here is a good summation of some of the major initiatives.
One of the more interesting efforts has occurred at that bastion of piled paperwork, the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS promotes electronic filing every which way, and more and more people are filing electronically, but some people still prefer to mail their tax return.
Therefore, the IRS has implemented a barcode on certain tax forms that enables the printed information to be scanned directly into digital format.
Who said the government can't innovate?
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