Archive for 2011
Daymarck Reacts to AMA’s Concerns
Provider of home health care coding and auditing services, Daymarck, has reacted to a statement released by the American Medical Association (AMA) where they came out against the ICD-10 conversion.
Read MoreSemantic Technology Finds Another Use
New science publications are appearing almost as fast as the digital data that is being created. MEDLINE – the US National Library of Medicine’s biomedical bibliographic database – now lists over 19 million records and adds up to 4,000 new records daily. With that kind of number, it quickly becomes unmanageable for scientists.
Read MoreNew Online Research Tool Features
Elsevier has released new features for its online research tool BrainNavigator. In this new version, BrainNavigator 3.2, Elsevier added new content and functionality to give researchers additional tools to accelerate their research.
Read MoreStandards for Centralized Indexes
Centralized indexes for discovery services seems to be the new fad. Beginning with Summon from Serials Solutions and followed by EBSCO Discovery Service, Primo Central from Ex Libris and OCLC’s WorldCat Local, these services depend on massive indexes populated with content representing each component of a library’s collection.
Read MoreThe Need for Training
IOD Incorporated has launched the IOD Learning Institute (ILI), an education platform that includes online learning, classroom led education and personalized one-on-one learning. This comes about in preparation for the ICD-10 transition.
Read MoreOne Size Fits All Taxonomies
A constant challenge for any content manager is the training to apply the right tags and metadata. We all know how important leaving these breadcrumbs can be to operating a comprehensive search. It is like filing something away in a blank folder with no idea of what it is and no way to find it. The DataFacet solution from WAND Inc provides sets of extensive taxonomies, and tools to automate the classification of documents and web content.
Read MoreSemantic Search Technology Leader Adds V.P.s
A leader in semantic search technology and innovation intelligence software has beefed up their management team. Invention Machine has appointed four senior executives to the company’s management team as a strategic growth move.
Read MoreSpreadsheets Being Replaced by Taxonomies
Taxonomy management tools have come a long way in tackling content organization challenges. However there seems to be no consistency in the tools and their approach. This is key as corporate requirements for search and content management have changed and grown for tools that help organizations create, administer, and publish semantic structures.
Read MoreThe Need for a Taxonomy
Many sophisticated semantic search tools build ontologies and taxonomies to organize the data. David Patterson, the co-founder and CEO of Sophia Search, doesn’t think this is necessary and seeks freedom from taxonomies or ontologies.
Read MoreICD-10 Creates Need for New Disease Taxonomy
The National Research Council released a report earlier this month that highlights the need for new systems to incorporate the health and disease-related information that continues to amass at an amazing rate, into a single resource that can help improve health outcomes.
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