How Related Are You?
I have a confession to make. I do not like sports. I do not watch sports. I know almost next to nothing about sports.
New Partnership Fulfills Long-Time Need
Access Integrity and Find-A-Code have joined force to revolutionize the medical coding industry. The application — named IntegraCoder — will combine Access Integrity’s semantic enrichment, rule-based taxonomy tool with Find-A-Code’s comprehensive medical coding datasets and search applications into a single user-friendly interface.
The Value of Technology
There are discussions happening everywhere about the advance of technology, and how it is either improving our lives or dumbing us down. Just accidentally leave your smart phone at home one day and you will quickly know how dependent we have become on these mobile devices to communicate, navigate, and socialize. The Moderate Voice was where we found an interesting piece on this topic titled, “The Ontology of Technology.”
Are You Ready?
One of the biggest challenges facing the healthcare industry in addition to the ICD-10 transition, is coordination among their many business partners. Providers, payers, and vendors all need to be on the same page at the same point, and that point is October 1, 2014.
Choose Carefully
Semantria has announced an open source plug-in for WordPress to assist bloggers, writers, and authors in streamlining their publication processes. This interesting news was found on PRWeb in their article, “Semantria Announces an Innovative Open Source Plug-in for WordPress.”
Is Taxonomy the Oldest Profession?
I recently came across a reference to taxonomy as “the oldest profession”. Could it be? Intrigued, I g**gled and discovered that Dr. Joel Walker Hedgpeth had given an entire talk on the subject in 1961, as the Eleventh Annual University of the Pacific Faculty Research Lecture.