Nobody keeps paper because they want to. They keep it because they are not sure what they are allowed to throw away, and the cost of guessing wrong is worse than the cost of another storage unit. This guide lays out the main California retention periods, what statute each comes from, and how to think…

Ask three scanning companies what a project costs and you will get three answers you cannot compare, all of them ending in “it depends.” The reason is that most of the industry prices per page. Per-page pricing sounds precise, and it is — for the vendor. For you it means the number that matters is…

Every practice that has ever considered digitizing its charts has run into the same worry: the moment those boxes leave your building, you are still the one HIPAA holds responsible. That worry is correct, and it is worth taking seriously. The good news is that HIPAA does not prohibit sending records to an outside scanning…