Introduction

My name is Gene Carangal and I am an administrator for a pediatric clinic in McAllen, Texas. I created this blog to chronicle my journey towards my ultimate goal - a paperless office.

It all began in September 2004. I asked a professional filing company to give me an estimate for the following =

• Create a more efficient workflow for my billing manager


• Change staff workflow for overall reduction of clutter


• Filing cabinets to accommodate growing volume of paper files


• Updated workstations to have easy access to needed files

Their estimate - $2500.00 for consulting fees and $3000.00 for furniture.

I did not call them back.

I realized that the problem was paper. If all the paper was scanned into digital files, we wouldn't need all the additional furniture. And I could teach the staff how to work more efficiently working with digital files instead of paper.

More on this tomorrow...