ICD-10 will have a big impact on the medical reimbursement project for healthcare organizations of every size. The ICD-10 coding classification transition is a huge code increase from ICD-9, with five times the number of codes to manage for reimbursement.
WebMediaBrands has announced the lineup of keynote speakers for its Semantic Technology & Business Conference in June. San Francisco is the locale for this large event devoted to semantic technologies.
A group from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine is testing the use of bioinformatics and other technologies to better understand how cells function. They are doing this with the use of ontologies.
Hi, my name is Melody and I am a foodaholic, or foodie. I love cooking, experimenting with ingredients, and reading cookbooks. Yes, I read cookbooks like others read novels. There are notes in the margins and dog eared pages for future reference.
Genetic research continues to explore and discover, all with the help of technology. The ability to conduct genome-wide association studies (GWAS) has enabled new […]
Access Innovations, Inc., a leader in digital data organization, announces its inclusion on KMWorld’s annual list of the Top 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management. Access Innovations is featured for its second year, after debuting on the list in 2005. Other notable companies given a spot on the 2013 top 100 list include Adobe, Google, IBM, and Microsoft.
I like to lift up interesting and sometimes humorous things I find in the world of language, vocabularly, taxonomy, etc. Today is different. Today's find makes me sad.
The one-year delay in the deadline for moving to the ICD-10 diagnostic coding system has been set, and many healthcare professionals are not satisfied that the delay is long enough to relieve some of the burdens that come with the transition.
Last year Google released Knowledge Graph, a database of over 570 million items of information. This was their demonstration of what a semantic search engine and structured data could bring to the table.