The Purest of Data
Vision is key to succeeding but difficult to obtain if you have been in the lead from the beginning. There is power in seeing the backs of your competitors. It drives you to compete and win. But always seeing the finish line with a clear view can be deceptive.
In the world of search, Google has become synonymous with search. Most people, myself included, just say, “google it.” Semantic search may give Google some real competition.
This interesting topic was brought to our attention on Imaserra in their article, “Why Google Will Win the Semantic Search Race.” Google has size on its side. The amount of data they possess is vast compared to competitors, and end-user data is the purest of data when it comes to semantic technology.
Melody K. Smith
Sponsored by Access Innovations, the world leader in taxonomies, metadata, and semantic enrichment to make your content findable.
Proper Motivation Required
May 14, 2013
Posted in Autoindexing, indexing, News
Medical coding is changing. Coders who have been in the “biz” for years have faced a decision: either retire or learn the new coding classification system. The latter is a daunting task for most. However economy, job security, etc. make for strong motivators to learn a new system. Unfortunately, physicians have no such motive – or so they think.
Many obstacles discourage physicians from embracing this new system, but in the end it will be key to continuing a cash flow with reimbursements, and when has money not been a great motivator?
Government Health IT brought this news to our attention in their article, “ICD-101: Flexibility a vital element of ICD-10 education.” Access Innovations, developer of the M.A.I. machine assisted indexing system and specializing in complex coding, tagging, and indexing, provides a range of services that deliver tag integrity. Access Innovations provides training to a client’s staff and then offers quality assurance and validation services that can assist in minimizing the risk of a coding error and identify inappropriately applied tags.
Melody K. Smith
Sponsored by Data Harmony, a unit of Access Innovations, the world leader in indexing and making content findable.
Improving Access
Trying to improve public access to government documents, the Justice Department is now using metadata in its effort to adhere to the Freedom of Information Act. Citizens will now be able to find information with a simple search on sites like www.foia.gov.
Since metadata is information about information but in a machine-readable format, computers can easily find and categorize a document or image. The Department of Justice is using this approach to support its Open Government Plan, and even better, they are working on a set of standards to manage and support metadata tagging.
This interesting information was found on Fierce IT Management in their article, “DOJ metatagging plan will make all federal FOIA documents searchable, accessible.” Of course we are excited about the standards. 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 taxonomies, metadata, and semantic enrichment to make your content findable.
DSM-5 Losing Favor
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIHM) has announced that the DSM-5 diagnostic manual project will not be the focus of their work. With only weeks before the launch, the NIMH said, it will be “re-orienting its research away from DSM categories”. Those familiar with this project find this move somewhat surprising.
The American Psychiatric Association may not agree as they have been quoted to say this project was the ”future of psychiatric diagnosis.” This interesting news was found on Mind Hacks in their article, “National Institute of Mental Health abandoning the DSM.”
As a result the NIMH will now be preferentially funding research that does not stick to DSM categories but those that look across current categories in the hopes of developing a better system.
Melody K. Smith
Sponsored by Access Innovations, the world leader in taxonomies, metadata, and semantic enrichment to make your content findable.
Thorough Search with Solid Indexing
SearchYourCloud provides a single search interface to find documents stored on a desktop or several cloud-based services and now they have broadened their reach to include Box in their latest version of client software. The goal is make it more of a search once-find many kind of experience.
The software works by accessing a user’s cloud storage accounts and indexing the contents. Local files on a hard disk are also indexed, providing a single interface from which to search both offline and online files. PC World brought this to our attention in their article, “Cloud indexing software extends its reach to Box.”
It is so very important to choose a product that makes your content findable – easily but most importantly, thoroughly. Access Innovations is one of a very small number of companies able to help its clients generate ANSI/ISO/W3C-compliant taxonomies and associated rule bases for machine-assisted indexing.
Melody K. Smith
Sponsored by Access Innovations, the world leader in taxonomies, metadata, and semantic enrichment to make your content findable.
The Bigger Impact
May 10, 2013
Posted in Autoindexing, indexing, News
The transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 is expected to impact healthcare organizations and providers in many areas – coding, technology, and reimbursement, just to name a few. Recent research published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) suggests that the impact will be tougher on specialists. EHR Intelligence brought this news to our attention in their article, “ICD-10 transition to impact specialists more negatively.”
The transition will increase the number of codes by five, topping out over 140,000 codes to properly assign to diagnoses for filing and reimbursement.
Medical coding requires specialized expertise and systems tailored to the regulatory requirements in which healthcare providers, hospitals, and doctors deliver their services. Training is very important. That is why Access Integrity provides training to a client’s staff and then offers quality assurance and validation services that can:
- Minimize the risk of a coding error
- Identify inappropriate or inadvertently applied tags
- Display a “map” of coding distributions to allow management to get a bird’s-eye view of the coding assignment flow.
Melody K. Smith
Sponsored by Data Harmony, a unit of Access Innovations, the world leader in indexing and making content findable.
It is All Perspective
Two billion is a large number, regardless of whether you are referring to dollars or granules of sand. WorldCat has reported the addition of its two billionth holding. As the most comprehensive online database of resources available, this milestone gives me pause.
This impressive and somewhat daunting piece of news was found on OCLC in their post, “WorldCat database reaches 2 billion holdings.” The monumental entry was from the University of Alberta Libraries in Edmonton and was for the e-book, Evaluation of the City of Lakes Family Health Team Patient Portal Pilot Project: Final Report, published in 2012 by the Centre for Rural and Northern Health Research.
WorldCat was created in 1971 for libraries to share cataloging information from a central database. It took the OCLC cooperative almost 34 years, from August 26, 1971 to August 11, 2005, to add one billion holdings in WorldCat. It has taken just seven years and eight months to add the next billion holdings.
Melody K. Smith
Sponsored by Access Innovations, the world leader in taxonomies, metadata, and semantic enrichment to make your content findable.
Using Semantic Search
The latest version of Eikon from Thomson Reuters offers semantic search capabilities. Eikon 3.0 applies free text search capabilities to financial data. Wall Street Technology brought this news to our attention in their article, “Semantic Search Takes Thomson Reuters Eikon to New Levels.”
Market data platforms hold mass amounts of data, but as with most databases and storage, findability is an issue. Eikon uses semantic search to simplify that process and reach the data in a single search.
Eikon 3.0 also includes some geospatial analysis capabilities that allow users to enter text queries for weather events or the location of a particular oil tanker anywhere in the world. This mapping capability changes the way users look and interact with data.
Melody K. Smith
Sponsored by Data Harmony, a unit of Access Innovations, the world leader in indexing and making content findable.
Benefits of Semantics
Artificial intelligence continues to tease even the most scientific professionals. The idea of a man-made technology that can rival human intelligence in processing and understanding is the brass ring for many. So it was no surprise when IBM’s Watson fascinated technologists during its performance on Jeopardy in 2011. Interestingly, many searches on Google are done in the form of questions. If the search engine had a better understanding of the natural language, the ability to answer questions would be enhanced. This interesting topic was discussed on the Seeking Alpha blog in their post, “The Search Engine Of The Future.”
Some natural language processing fans will always be seeking the illusive artificial intelligence from science fiction movies, and we may reach that level of use at some point in the future. But for now, this technology will continue to advance and evolve, and hopefully, enhance our lives.
Melody K. Smith
Sponsored by Data Harmony, a unit of Access Innovations, the world leader in indexing and making content findable.
The Strength of Metadata
Organizations are facing the constant challenge of handling big data by looking beyond storage. They are seeking to understand how to analyze large data sets to consider the tags or labels that give the data context over time. This interesting topic was found on Tech Target in their article, “Metadata practices gaining momentum as companies tackle ‘big data’.”
If companies ignore metadata, they will be forfeiting the comprehensive insights that it can bring to the game. Metadata makes digital content findable.
However, findability works only when a proper taxonomy is in place. 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 Data Harmony, a unit of Access Innovations, the world leader in indexing and making content findable.