Archive for 2011
The Digital Divide
Internet technologies are rapidly evolving, so fast that it makes one wonder if users can keep up with the new terminology, skills and knowledge needed to navigate their way through new digital divides.
Read MoreTechnological Weather
The BBC Weather website has been relaunched after a public beta. The new site is on a three-tier architecture and this move was part of the BBC’s wider strategy to move to a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to increase cross-product interoperability and data reuse.
Read MoreISYS Search Software Releases New Version
ISYS Search Software has released its next generation Enterprise 10.0 product that promises enterprise search at speeds up to four times faster than previous versions. Features of the new version includes ISYS 1-Click FileFinder indexing, analytics and search technology, and more. The customizable interface lets business users search and refine the results the way they want – making the information findable.
Read MoreAdara Offers Compatible Software for ICD-10 Transition
Adara Networks is targeting healthcare for its next virtualization challenge. With their history of providing IT services to the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, Adara is looking to move their enterprise service buses, which allow compatibility among software applications, to the healthcare field.
Read MoreMoving Data to SharePoint Just Got Easier
MetaVis Technologies has released a solution for migrating Google Apps to SharePoint or Office 365 – MetaVis Migrator for Google Apps. This new product allows users to migrate Google content to either a hosted or on-premise-based SharePoint solution while preserving metadata required for compliance and governance policies.
Read MoreNew Software Acts as Social Media Filter
Social media at its very core was designed to make users want to follow people. It is all about making connections. However, with the influx of data coming through social media, there is a trend in social media users where they are no longer “following’ people and organizations in an effort to limit the clutter and chatter that is coming from their social networks. Doesn’t this defeat the point of social media?
Read MoreHealthcare Reimbursement Will Just Get More Complicated
Healthcare reimbursement is a complex system as it stands. With the new evolving transition of the medical coding to the ICD-10 classification system, it will be even more complex.
Read MoreSocial Media Chatter Monitoring Tool
The Social Media Command Center from InTTENSITY is a service software that provides access for users to view their search/filter information and utilize it to make decisions based on the social media information found on the Internet.
Read MoreTagged and Topicmarks Merge
Tagged has announced an acquisition of Topicmarks. Tagged is the social discovery service and Topicmarks uses semantic engine to summarize content. The combination of these two should be interesting.
Read MoreKnowledge Organization Requires Standards
There is much automation in the medical world, both in treatment and billing. One of those that were hardest for physicians to accept was clinical pathways. A clinical pathway is a common medical treatment for a disease and care developed by one of the most appropriate care plans. These are used as management models in an effort to improve health care quality and to control medical costs. Standardized electronic clinical pathways use ontologies as shared conceptual models or knowledge organization.
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