Melody Smith

About Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.

Data Analyst Sought

By |January 22nd, 2014|Business strategy, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Data Analyst Sought

As we strive to be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, ontology, etc., we are always excited to share career opportunities that we find with our readers. Even if you aren’t in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and how the fields are evolving.

Standards Come with Experience

By |January 22nd, 2014|News, semantic, Standards|Comments Off on Standards Come with Experience

Foxtel has selected Digitalsmiths Seamless Discovery to provide metadata management to support its pay TV services on both broadcast and IPTV platforms.

Search and Semantic Technology

By |January 21st, 2014|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on Search and Semantic Technology

Expert System has announced an innovative semantic solution for Wolters Kluwer Italy by integrating Expert System’s Cogito. This collaboration improves access and findability of information on their online portal. MarketWatch brought us this information in their article, “Expert System Develops Semantic Search Engine for Wolters Kluwer Italy.”

Recruitment Utilizing Semantic Technology

By |January 21st, 2014|News, semantic|Comments Off on Recruitment Utilizing Semantic Technology

TargetRecruit recently announced a new integration with Monster’s SeeMore platform. The result will be a more robust recruitment software and one would think, an increase in effectiveness. PRWeb brought this news to us in their article, “TargetRecruit Integrates with Monster’s Semantic Search and Workforce Analytics Recruitment Platform to Provide Advanced Search and Talent Mapping Features.

Free Trial Offer for Find-A-Code

By |January 20th, 2014|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on Free Trial Offer for Find-A-Code

Find-A-Code is offering a free 7-day trail of its newest coding tool called Code-A-Note. Code-A-Note utilizes concept extractor software that analyzes the volumes of information contained in an electronic medical record's (EMR) text fields and provides the professional coder with highly relevant ICD-9, CPT, and HCPCS coding suggestions. Find-A-Code's digital coding libraries then apply additional filters and data resources to the selected codes including a claim scrubbing feature. With the pending implementation of ICD-10 in October of 2014, Code-A-Note will offer its users unique documentation training opportunities as well as a coding tool. Code-A-Note was designed to decrease the amount of time that medical coders spend reading a patient's encounter note. The software analyzes the note in its entirety to produce relevant codes.

Emotions Categorized

By |January 17th, 2014|News, Taxonomy|1 Comment

Researchers are producing a behavioral catalog which would be emotionally helpful for patients and assist doctors in being more compassionate while dealing with them. The catalog will guide medical training and education by breaking down the discourse and analyzing the context. This interesting information came from News Tonight Africa in their article, "Researchers Hope to Create a Behavioral Taxonomy to Guide Medical Training."