Summer 2007
Volume 5
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In this Issue
Solution Spotlight: IRS
Regulatory Update
Latest News from Industry Partners
New Customers Welcomed
What’s in an Acronym?
QAI Events
Employee Spotlight
From the President
Major Announcements
QAI Makes a Move!
QAI recently signed a contract to lease a new corporate headquarters facility in Maple Lawn, MD.

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Quality Associates Named Howard County Firm of the Year by Maryland Tech Council
QAI was recently named Howard County Firm of the Year by the Tech Council of Maryland.

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The National Institutes of Health Renews Grants Management Contract with Quality Associates
Effective January 2007, QAI’s announced it’s contract has been renewed with The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the primary federal agency for conducting and supporting medical research.

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Quality Associates, Inc. Expands Business Development Team
Tiffani Killian has replaced Elizabeth Kocourek as the Sales Support Specialist for the Information Systems Division.

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QAI Receives Top Maintenance Renewal Champion Award from Kofax
QAI recently received the award for Top Maintenance Renewal Champion from Kofax, the world’s largest information capture vendor.

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Message from the Editor

Welcome back to Quality Insights, Quality Associates’ corporate newsletter aimed at the document management and quality assurance communities. We took a brief hiatus from our regular issues to prepare for our big move to our new headquarter building Maple Lawn, Maryland.

On November 7, 2007 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., we invite all of you to our Open House/Vendor Fair at our new state-of-the-art headquarter building. It will be a great opportunity to see our new production areas in our service centers, learn the latest document management technologies, network with our peers, staff and partners, and enjoy delicious lunch catered by our neighboring restaurant, The OZ Chophouse.

In addition to our Open House Event, QAI will begin a new monthly Webinar Series. These will be free, interactive, educational Webinars about the latest and greatest in document technologies. Stay tuned for more information on these upcoming events!

Lora Martin
Marketing Manager
Quality Associates, Inc.
lmartin@qualityassociatesinc.com

QAI Makes a Move!
Solution Spotlight Industry News
Internal Revenue Service

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announces jobs either internally or both internally and externally.

The applicants are required to fill out various forms to successfully apply for the announced position. The applicants’ documentation for a specific announcement is called a “promotion package”. Each applicant’s paperwork is considered a “file”. The IRS contracted with QAI to make reproductions of promotion packages in an electronic format (CD-ROM) to fill National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) information request. The IRS ships the promotion packages to QAI from each Human Capital Office in paper format to be scanned and sanitized (redacted) of all personal identifiable information.

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SSA Releases New Privacy Rules

The Social Security Administration (SSA) released final rules that revise its privacy and disclosure rules to clarify certain provisions and to provide expanded regulatory support for new and existing responsibilities and functions.

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HHS Launches Enhanced HIPAA Enforcement Website

To coincide with the fourth anniversary of the enforcement of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the launch of an enhanced website that will make it easier for consumers, healthcare providers, and others to get information about how the HHS enforces health information privacy rights and standards.

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New Customers Industry Relationships
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC)

QAI recently announced that it was selected by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC), an organization that facilitates the acquisition of IT products and services for NIH and other federal government agencies, to design and implement a document management and archiving system.

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QAI Expands FDA Contract with MDR Records

QAI recently began work on a contract expansion with the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH).

The MDR project is the mechanism by which FDA tracks critical medical device adverse events from manufacturers, importers, and user facilities. Congress enacted legislation requiring that all critical failures of medical devices be reported to the FDA in 1984. A 1986 study by the General Accounting Office (GAO) found that these instances were still dramatically underreported.

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IMF Project Award

QAI was recently awarded a multiyear contract with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to provide conversion services to digitize selected materials from its Archives Collection in order to make them electronically available to internal and external researchers.

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Visioneer Announces New Strobe XP 220 - Only Mobile Scanner to Integrate Kofax VRS Technology

Visioneer recently announced the Strobe XP 220, Visioneer’s most advanced sheetfed scanner that scans a full page...

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Fujitsu Introduces First Network Scanner

Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc., recently introduced its first network scanner into its award-winning line of scanning solutions.

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BÖWE BELL + HOWELL Introduces New Departmental Scanner – Sidekick 1400u

BÖWE BELL + HOWELL recently introduced the Sidekick 1400u with Ultrasonic Multifeed Detection.

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Kodak Establishes i1800 Series with New Production Scanner

Eastman Kodak Company recently introduced the KODAK i1840 Scanner.

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Kofax Unveils Document Exchange Server

Kofax recently unveiled the Document Exchange Server, a new software solution that is designed to facilitate the exchange of documents and information between standard document input devices within an...

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