Author Archive: Hobey Echlin

Heartland Advisors Streamlines Research with Laserfiche

Intelligent forms processing helps RIA manage information for over 1,600 companies, even on the go

January 17th, 2012

Heartland Advisors, Inc. (“Heartland”) is an independently owned Milwaukee-based firm established in 1983. As of November 30, 2011, the Firm managed approximately $4.9 billion in assets for institutional and high net worth clients and the Heartland family of value-driven mutual funds. Full story »

Paperless and Purposeful

MI mental health agency uses Laserfiche to support EHR; looks to Laserfiche Mobile to improve efficiency in the field

August 18th, 2011

Northern Michigan’s Muskegon County Community Mental Health Services (MCCMHS) implemented its Avatar practice management system back in 2003 to automate electronic health records (EHR). Although the Avatar system had a document imaging module that could digitize the patient histories, lab reports and documents that would always require doctor and patient signatures, several of the county’s non-clinical departments—including HR and Finance—were also contending with overflowing file cabinets and rising storage and handling costs.

Rather than implementing separate solutions for the clinical and non-clinical sides of the house, MCCMHS officials recognized that enterprise content management (ECM) would be the most efficient and cost-effective way to answer its document-related challenges. Full story »

How Workflow Turned Tax Season into ROI Season

Hewitt Financial Group saves $20,000 and 1,000 hours in its first year automating its tax preparation business

July 27th, 2011

Al Hewitt Inc./Hewitt Financial Group (HFG), headquartered in Palmdale, CA, is a combination fee-only Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) and tax preparation firm serving 6,000 clients between its two offices in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties. Full story »

“We Fell In Love with Workflow”

Eastmont Towers automates and streamlines patient charting using Laserfiche

June 28th, 2011

Eastmont Towers, a continuing care retirement community in Lincoln, NE, offers multiple levels of care and a range of services between five buildings on two campuses, which leads to multiple levels of information management challenges. Full story »

Nowhere to Go But Up

Chelsea, MA, leverages Web Access to eliminate paper with 25% less staff

June 27th, 2011

Covering just two square miles, Chelsea, MA is the state’s smallest city, but also one of its densest with 35,000 residents residing in its two square miles. Housing a dozen schools and a dozen-plus more municipal buildings, Chelsea is “certainly compact,” as IT Director John Hyland puts it. Full story »

Quick Fields, Quicker Assessments and the Quickest Path to Governance

Fresno County’s Assessor’s Office builds its ECM foundation on operational improvement

May 25th, 2011

May_GME_Fresno_logoLocated in the middle of California’s San Joaquin Valley, Fresno County comprises over a million citizens and about six million square miles of incorporated cities and smaller communities. Full story »

Off Paper, On Course

Fure Financial finds the winds of change easier to navigate when there’s not a ton of paper flying around.

May 19th, 2011

Fure Financial is an independent, fee-based financial planning firm based in Minneapolis, MN. The company, founded in 1984, offers holistic investment advice to manage client assets with an eye toward fulfilling life goals, a successful strategy that has grown Fure—almost entirely by referrals—into the trusted advisor and wealth manager for 360 families. Full story »

May VAR of the Month: Itqan Technologies

May 1st, 2011

Itqan Technologies, based in Doha, Qatar, achieved more than 70% of its total 2010 sales in the first four months of 2011. Full story »

Building Better Billing—and Better Business

Pre Billing Consultants automates the bulk of its business processing using Laserfiche agile ECM.

April 26th, 2011

Pre Billing Consultants, Inc. (PBC) has provided billing, coding, credentialing and collection services to healthcare providers along the East Coast, from hospital emergency departments to urgent care centers, for over 15 years. Full story »

April VAR of the Month: Expert Data, S.C.

Expert Data emphasizes solutions not products; closes an average of a deal a week for Q1

April 14th, 2011

Expert Data, based in Monterrey, MX, has already increased business 60% over its total 2010 sales by closing an average of a deal a week this year, a winning streak that has made it the top-selling VAR in Latin America for Q1 2011.
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The Value of Truly Agile ECM

For less than it would have cost to upgrade and support a legacy system, Bremer County, IA, implements Laserfiche to do it all

April 12th, 2011

Bremer County, IA, faced a problem not unique to modest-sized municipalities: after making a significant investment in a document management system to manage its land records, users had a hard time letting go of the paper. Full story »

March VAR of the Month: AMI – The Paperless Company

AMI embraces Agile ECM messaging to successfully present function-rich solutions

March 31st, 2011

AMI – The Paperless Company, based in Los Angeles, has reached 75% of its total 2010 sales figures in the first two months of this year, and is set to qualify for the Winners Circle before the end of Q1. Full story »

Take Two Seconds and Don’t Have to Call Me in the Morning

CapitalCare supports healthy growth with Laserfiche as its evolving ECM/BPM standard

March 22nd, 2011

March Pulse logoFormed in 1998, CapitalCare Medical Group is a physician-owned medical practice with 27 medical offices across four counties in upstate New York, with central business offices located in Albany. Full story »