For example, health care providers must streamline, simplify and digitize their health care records by 2015.
It could take more than 10 years to catalog and digitize WWOZ's vast collection.
Networked computers would digitize the battlefield, increase the transparency of the battlefield to commanders, and provide real-time data.
They would also like to digitize the drugs taken to treat neurological disorders.
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They centralize and digitize the patient's medical records, usually dog-eared paper piles that can run to thousands of pages.
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The team at iMerit is also working to digitize books that were published before books were all digitally available.
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The company had to come up with its own mastering technology to digitize the film, compress it and add security.
"We're on the threshold of being able to digitize the system, " says Thomas Standish, the head of regulated operations at CenterPoint.
Kaiser Permanente had set out to fully digitize its hospitals and affiliated physicians on a scale no other hospital had accomplished.
While the need to digitize patient records is imperative, no one knows whether those rules have measurably improved outcomes, so far.
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But while big hospitals are moving fast to digitize their internal operations, they have less leverage over self-employed doctors like Krupen.
The library will extend partnerships to borrow from other libraries, and further digitize its own collection so it can share with others.
When Oroville Hospital decided to digitize its patient medical records three years ago, like all hospitals, it shopped around for a vendor.
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The company proposed to digitize the entire collection free of charge, and give the library an electronic copy of each of its books.
Corbis, too, has built an extensive web infrastructure, spending millions of dollars to preserve and digitize its aging images--and to secure future revenues.
They have spawned much of the software inside everything from the Gmail e-mail product to a controversial effort to digitize thousands of books.
Sure, the technology to digitize and store medical records has been around for like, forevah, but without standards, any effort would be fruitless.
At a time when hospitals are spending millions to digitize, open source EHR software is an alternative option to costly and proprietary systems.
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In 2008, the University of Cape Town helped finance a multistory, glass-paneled library and preservation complex, whose staff sought to digitize Timbuktu's written heritage.
Its bigger and more progressive neighbor, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, has released a juiced-up options product, part of its accelerated plan to digitize (see box).
Evernote's iOS app has a special Page Camera option that allows users to digitize entries made into physical notebooks by taking pictures of the pages.
In an apparent response to Apple's iMovie, WinMe will include Windows Movie Maker, a tool that allows users to digitize, compress, edit, sort and share home videos.
And, though much has been done to digitize content, it is impossible to scratch the surface, especially on the budget afforded to libraries today and in times past.
It allowed the orchestra to digitize up to 2, 000 pages per day per camera, cutting the cost in half compared with other methods that use scanners, she said.
On Sunday night, WikiLeaks announced the Public Library of United States Diplomacy, (PLUS D) an effort to digitize both secret and formerly secret documents from U.S. diplomatic history.
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Hodge also wants to digitize some audio recordings, including a tape he made 35 years ago of his daughter, then 2 years old, asking his grandmother what Christmas was like when she was a child.
Stanford was one of the first universities to agree to allow Google to digitize a third of its library some three million books at a time when publishers and the Authors Guild were suing the company for copyright infringement.
The push, some three years in the making, comes in the form of deals with Warner Brothers Studios to restore and digitize the Warner motion picture and television library, the world's largest, and also create a digital post-production studio.
Individual libraries sometimes received grants to scan specific collections in 2001, the New York Public Library used federal money to digitize a substantial portion of the collection at its Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture but a comprehensive effort seemed inconceivable.
Now used in 8, 500 U.S. shops, PhotoNet allows retailers to digitize conventional photos and store digital images on central servers so customers can access them via the Internet, edit them, electronically send the results worldwide or order prints, mugs and other paraphernalia.
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