Posts by Melody Smith
Are You Ready?
With the ICD-10 coding classification transition countdown seemingly going faster, how ready are providers for the implementation? A survey by Aloft Group, a Newburyport, Massachusetts healthcare branding and marketing firm, sheds some light on just that.
Read MoreManaging All That Data
Big data. Unstructured data. Semi-structured data. Data, data, data. It seems like everyone is talking about data and the challenges that comes with it.
Read MoreTechnology in the Sky
Algebraix Data Corporation announced its SPARQL Server RDF database successfully executed all 17 of its queries on the SP2 benchmark up to one billion triples on one computer node. This computationally complex testing exceeds all others before it.
Read MoreRanganathan, Classification, and British Toys
I’ve mentioned Ranganathan briefly in some earlier posts. Let’s look at his innovations and influence from a historical perspective. Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan (1892-1972) was an Indian mathematician and librarian. His academic training was in mathematics, in which subject he earned two degrees. He taught mathematics and wrote several articles on the history of mathematics. These articles worked to…
Read MoreMetadata Providing Structure
M-Files has received a cash infusion to further their growth. The Finnish enterprise content management platform does away with traditional folder structures by relying entirely on metadata to help people find documents.
Read MoreEnsuring Compliance
The impending ICD-10 coding classification transition is a challenge for not just hospitals and physicians, but other healthcare providers are preparing for this “new world” with training.
Read MoreApplication Blocks Aid Customization
Microsoft recently released Enterprise Library (EL) 6.0 with a semantic logging application block. Enterprise Library has a long history of providing architectural guidance, recommended practices, and reusable components to help developers, architects, and IT professionals efficiently build line-of-business (LOB) systems.
Read MoreEmotional Intelligence
Defining our own emotions is difficult enough, but now Google is working on a semantic natural language technology that will read emotions and meaning from your internet history so your query returns a dynamic and comprehensive result. Search is no longer about just keywords.
Read MoreData About Data
The massive growth in the volume of data being created is no surprise to anyone. Most people think of documents, photos, and programs as the main contributor to this mountain of data, but don’t forget about digital video and broadcast video. For instance, it has been reported that the television program Deadliest Catch creates almost 1PB of digital film per episode.
Read MoreFinding Family
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have always been ahead of the curve when it comes to family history and genealogy. Indexing massive amounts of data provides FamilySearch.org the advantage when it comes to searching genealogical records online by name, date and location. Currently there are 2.4 million rolls of microfilm in their vault undergoing digital conversation, and that doesn’t include new digital images that are being collected online.
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