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In a recently settled class action lawsuit, Tenet Healthcare Corporation recently settled for $25 million. The number of individuals who participated in the lawsuit is unknown, but those in the class claimed that New Orleans’ Memorial Medical Center lack of emergency preparedness caused an unreasonable amount of harm when 2005’s Hurricane Katrina devastated the area.

Dangerous to your health and destructive to your belongings, mold spores are always in the air and summer can provide them with the right conditions to grow, especially if you do not have an air conditioner in your building. When it comes to this destructive fungal force, prevention is as important as its treatment, if not more.

Adopting a document management system in your business or organization is a large undertaking. The right DMS can keep your business organized and in compliance with government, legal, and other regulations. It can save money on storage and boost productivity.

There are many factors that can influence when and how fast mold grows on your stored or water damaged documents. If you live in a humid climate, moisture levels and seasonal weather will have a large impact on the rate of mold growth. Cooler climates, however, are not much better off. In general, documents that have come into contact with water recently – through a flood, hurricane or water leak, for example – can begin to grow mold within just 48 hours.

Perhaps your business or organization has suffered recent document damage – due to a fire, earthquake or flood, for example. Or maybe you have simply decided to back up and digitize hard copies of important documents for future safekeeping. In either case, one very important aspect of document restoration or scanning is security.