Archive for 2011
EBSCO Acquires Vast Database
EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has acquired the database, Ergonomics Abstracts™. The database focuses on ergonomics and human factors and provides indexing for eBooks, journal articles and reference works in a variety of fields that will be of value to academic libraries and research institutes.
Read MoreIntelligence Data Equals Big Data
Intelligent Software Solutions (ISS) has opened a new office in Rome, New York to better meet the growing needs of its main customer in the area, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).
Read MoreThe Y2K of Healthcare
Many healthcare professionals are in scrambling mode to beat the October 2013 deadline to move from ICD-9 to ICD-10
medical coding system. This has an upside for the economy. Anthelio, a healthcare technology company based in Dallas, plans to hire 200 people in Michigan, mostly medical insurance billers and coders. If there is a state that needs an economical boost, Michigan would fit that bill.
Proper Findability
Copies of articles can now be accessed quickly and cheaply using the IEEE Computer Society’s Instant Conference Download (ICD) service. ICD provides contributing authors with an alternative to buying print copies of the entire proceedings, which can take up to six weeks to order and receive.
Read MoreLoosening the Social Media Reigns
The digital workplace has presented some tough challenges. There isn’t a Human Resource department anywhere that hasn’t faced the IT challenge of engaging employees, maintaining productivity and still have a foot hold in the social media world – all at the same time.
Read MoreThe Impact of Apple
The passing of Steve Jobs gives us a chance to reflect on the business in general and, of course, how it affects us. The many incredible things he did and his inventions are very well covered in other more appropriate venues. The world changed significantly on his watch and he drove others to make amazing strides. We always admired the Apple systems and in fact were the first commercial installation of Apple IIe’s in (at least in New Mexico) 1980. We bought 22 of the 48K main memory machines with single sided floppy 5.25 inch drives holding 512 K of data at one time. We had one machine with two floppy drives where we would copy the data for safe back up before transferring it to 9 track 1600 bpi tape on the Wang system for eventual conversion and delivery to the clients.
Read MoreICD 10 Transition Deadline Stirs Activity
In the continual race to beat the deadline of the ICD 10-transition has various companies scrambling for assistance. Elsevier/MC Strategies will be working with Care Communications to develop an ICD-10 transition resource, and Anthelio has formed a strategic partnership with MedQuist Holdings. Health insurance giant, Humana is incorporating Interactions Corporation’s voice portal technology into its Medicare Part D benefits enrollment program.
Read MoreOpen Source Giant Celebrates Anniversary
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is celebrating the 10th anniversary of Apache Lucene. First developed in 1997, the Lucene information retrieval software entered the ASF as a sub-project of the Apache Jakarta project in 2001, and soon became a standalone, Top-Level Project (TLP) in 2005.
Read MoreOracle Takes To the Clouds
Oracle has announced a new public cloud service that includes business applications, database software and a Java development platform. The applications are customer relationship management (CRM) and human capital management (HCM) and are based on Oracle’s Fusion application range – and an internal social networking system.
Read MoreSemantic Search Powers Robot
The clip of the robot serving food seemed to appear on every site I visited today. I guess our fascination of life as The Jetson’s has not diminished with our youth. Robotic technology continues to advance and the PR2 robot is a good example. Not only is it smart enough to be able to fetch food from the fridge, but with the little help of a technology known as semantic search, it is even clever enough to bring you a sandwich, despite not knowing where or exactly what it is.
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