With all that is going on in the world of healthcare (e.g., ICD-10 conversion, electronic medical records, and the new government healthcare program), it is hard to imagine adding to that load. However, sometimes what is an add-on can be a load reliever.

This interesting news was found on Medical Xpress in their article, “How to create useful knowledge from pure data.” As the article points out, it is time to focus on making patient data accessible with intelligent indexing, semantic technologies to navigate through the terminology, and imaging data, all for the goal of high quality, intuitive healthcare.

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.