Risk of Coding Errors Just Grew Five Times

If you are remotely connected to the healthcare field, the term ICD-10 is not a foreign one. Front office, back office, provider, biller – whatever role you play, you know about the transition to the ICD-10 coding classification. This upgrade is massive on any scale and the shift will bump the number of codes used to classify illness for reimbursement will multiply by five.

Scripps Howard News Service brought this to our attention via The Republic’s article, “Medical: Number of diagnostic codes multiply ad nauseam.” Access Innovations’ M.A.I. machine-assisted indexing system and specialists in complex coding, tagging, and indexing can minimize the risk of coding errors with proper training and quality assurance. Many widely used tagging systems lack the user-friendly interface and may not implement a rigorous ANSI-compliant coding subsystem. Access Innovations’ solutions are ANSI-compliant and implement state-of-the-art technology to speed tagging and reduce errors.

Melody K. Smith

Sponsored by Data Harmony, a unit of Access Innovations, the world leader in indexing and making content findable.

Digital Asset Conference This Month

The digital asset management community will be gathering in Beverly Hills in a couple of weeks at Createasphere’s Digital Asset Management (DAM) Conference. The event will encompass a variety of topics, including the escalating challenges of production workflow, content protection, transmedia, disaster recovery, semantics, metadata, and taxonomy. Their services and this event are targeted towards an equal variety of fields, including advertising, broadcasting, entertainment, new media, publishing, and non-profits.

Broadcast Newsroom brought this event to our attention in their article, “Createasphere’s Digital Asset Management Conference Announces Schedule for Expert and Practitioner Driven Event.” The event is scheduled for February 22-23, 2012. You can find more details and register here.

Melody K. Smith

Sponsored by Access Innovations, the world leader in thesaurus, ontology, and taxonomy creation and metadata application.

The What and Why of Taxonomies

Stellar taxonomy management was the topic of conversation at the recent KMWorld Taxonomy Bootcamp event in Washington, D.C. Making searches simple and improving findability was the goal.

We found this on CMSWire in their article, “Taxonomy Building: Tackling the Challenges.” Marjorie M. K. Hlava, President and Chairman of Access Innovations Inc., was one of the featured speakers, providing an introduction to the process of creating a taxonomy.

According to the author, a memorable piece of her presentation was what she saw as a “shift in semantics” around taxonomies. Many organizations now refer to knowledge management and the capture of metadata and taxonomy structures as “knowledge organization systems”. This shift in language is important. While many organizations are struggling with building out their taxonomies, they are learning what and why it is important.

Melody K. Smith

Sponsored by Data Harmony, a unit of Access Innovations, the world leader in indexing and making content findable.

Force11 Has a Vision for the Future

The Force11 project (the Future of Research Communication and e-Scholarship) describes itself as a community of scholars, librarians, archivists, publishers, and research funders. Their vision could be considered ambitious in that they look to a future in which scientific information and scholarly communication more generally become part of a global, universal, and explicit network of knowledge.

Mark Ware, Vice President and Lead Analyst of Outsell, recently talked about the Force11 project in his post titled, “Listening to the Alpha Geeks – What Comes After the Article of the Future? Open source is important to the Force11 project, and it is easy to see why. One of the greatest advantages in contributing to open source is the ability to collaborate with a diverse, enthusiastic community.

Melody K. Smith

Sponsored by Access Innovations, the world leader in taxonomies, metadata, and semantic enrichment to make your content findable.

New Standards for SOA and the Cloud

The Open Group has announced the availability of two new industry standards that enable businesses to embrace elements of service oriented architecture and cloud computing.

We found this interesting news on PRNewswire in “The Open Group Publishes New Standards for SOA and Cloud.” The new standards are: SOA Reference Architecture (SOA RA) and the Service-Oriented Cloud Computing Infrastructure (SOCCI) Framework. The Open Group has also released updates to the Open Group Service Integration Maturity Model (OSIMM), which has now been ratified as an ISO and IEC International Standard (ISO/IEC 166880). OSIMM gives organizations a common model for developing a road map for achieving the right level of service adoption to meet business objectives.

This may not immediately seem like exciting news, but any effort made to establish standards to provide organized and approved processes that could affect many organizations is a good thing.

Melody K. Smith

Sponsored by Access Innovations, the world leader in thesaurus, ontology, and taxonomy creation and metadata application.

User-Friendly Terminology Can Help Reduce the Impact of ICD-10

Health Language, Inc. has launched a new version of its terminology to include clinician-friendly synonyms and more than 100,000 attributes for ICD-10-CM.

Business Wire brought this topic to our attention in their article, “Health Language, Inc. Launches a New Version of its Provider Friendly Terminology to Include Attributes Native to ICD-10-CM.” This version simplifies complexities that are associated with coding in ICD-10 by allowing providers to use familiar terminology when entering data on electronic health records (EHR). This can result in an increased clinical workflow and lower lost revenue from inaccurate or incomplete clinical documentation.

The new ICD-10 coding classification system that goes into effect in October 2013 will have five times the number of codes to use for billing reimbursement than the current ICD-9 does. Access Innovations’ M.A.I. machine-assisted indexing system and specialists in complex coding, tagging, and indexing can minimize the risk of coding errors with proper training and quality assurance. Many widely used tagging systems lack the user-friendly interface and may not implement a rigorous ANSI-compliant coding subsystem. Access Innovations’ solutions are ANSI-compliant and implement state-of-the-art technology to speed tagging and reduce errors.

Melody K. Smith

Sponsored by Data Harmony, a unit of Access Innovations, the world leader in indexing and making content findable.

Call for Help in Research

One recent report has identified some modern challenges facing physical science researchers. The report was commissioned by the Research Information Network (RIN), the Institute of Physics (IOP), IOP Publishing (IOPP), and the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS).

This interesting information was found on Knowledgespeak in their article, “Report identifies contemporary challenges faced by physical science researchers.” The research indicates that entities such as research councils, publishing houses, and libraries should step up and help physical scientists gather, manage, and share research information. Apparently, the needs vary among the various research groups due to their approach and challenges.

It is nice to see some value given to the researchers, librarians, and scientists attempting to gather data, as well as the call for some help in their endeavors.

Melody K. Smith

Sponsored by Access Innovations, the world leader in taxonomies, metadata, and semantic enrichment to make your content findable.

New Faceted Search Engine for Food Publishers

Vertical Search Works has launched their new VS4Food search offering for publishers. This vertical search engine resides on a publisher’s site where users can enter a query using a toolbar, and the search engine returns results from both the publisher and from other web sites relevant to the query.

MarketWatch brought this news to our attention in their article, “Vertical Search Works Launches New Faceted VS4Food Search.” VS4Food organizes results into relevant categories or facets, along with relevant images. The search results also contain relevant advertisements selected by their semantic ad matching technology.

This interesting attempt at findability can be made possible with proper indexing. Proper indexing against a strong standards-based taxonomy increases the findability of data. Access Innovations is one of a very small number of companies able to help its clients generate ANSI/ISO/W3C-compliant taxonomies.

Melody K. Smith

Sponsored by Access Innovations, the world leader in thesaurus, ontology, and taxonomy creation and metadata application.

Semantic Technology Linking Data

Linking data sets via semantic technology is becoming more and more popular in the biomedical and finance industries. This can be credited in part to the Enterprise Data Management Council.

This interesting news was found on The Big Data Blog in their post, “Handling Big Data Variety.” New semantic technology is advancing the already established process by providing a set of formalized XML-based standards for storage, querying, and manipulation of data. One of most powerful aspects of semantic technology is known as entity extraction. This capability allows information to be extracted from unstructured data and combined with transactional data. This results in some deep analytics.

Melody K. Smith

Sponsored by Access Innovations, the world leader in thesaurus, ontology, and taxonomy creation and metadata application.

They Can’t Buy It If They Can’t Find It

One online retailer has expanded their website functionality to make findability of their products more user-friendly and practical.

This interesting information was found on PRWeb in their article, “Toolbox Refine Their Website to Benefit Users & Customers.” Toolbox is a well-established name in the online tool market, and their website has always been straight to the point and user-friendly, but this new enhancement was specifically designed to attract customers and help them find the items they want.

Findability is key for any system, especially in the world of online retail. Without being able to find items quickly and easily, consumers’ attention spans go somewhere else fast, resulting in lost revenues. Findability is achieved by creating strong taxonomies.

Melody K. Smith

Sponsored by Data Harmony, a unit of Access Innovations, the world leader in indexing and making content findable.

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