document flow

document flow

[′däk·yə·mənt ‚flō]
(computer science)
The path taken by documents as they are processed through a record handling system.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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While he was advertising his position throughout the APS, the comptroller squadron (CPTS) was focused on his training and on organizing a document flow process that would be smooth for both the ATF and the CPTS.
THE FLOWCHART IS A VISUAL REPRESENTAtion of a document flow, process, or logical pattern of thought.
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Delos and Carvill have adopted an "associative filing" technology to manage their document flow, as opposed to the more common "hierarchical" filing approach where files, both paper and electronic, are put into folders and either stored or shuffled among employees, making them extremely hard to track when decision time rolls around.
Knowledge management is the purposeful management of the flow of information into the specific communities of information within your organization (such as your hospitalists, your admissions group, or your security team), using such tools as online forums, face-to-face meetings, document flow, idea fairs and task forces.
The WAWF system also automatically sends e-mails to all affected action points' public e-mail folder for document flow. The WAWF e-mail for financing documents is the ACO/CA's only notice that he has documents on which to take action--no e-mail is sent to the ACO/CA on post-pay documents.
This document flow can be easily diagrammed on a large piece of posterboard.
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