Posts by Melody Smith
Social Search Expands
Sprylogics recently announced that its semantic search technology will be integrated into its chat and search application, 2ya for Facebook.
Read MoreInteresting Exercise for IT Professionals
An unusual and spirited event targeted to season developers and engineers in the practice of information architecture is scheduled for its seventh appearance at the IA Summit.
Read MoreCollege Search Takes On New Technology
Choosing a college is daunting to every high school student looking to broaden their horizons and further their education. Now there is a new tool available to assist seekers in refining their searches using map search technology.
Read MoreJokes, Unstructured
Humor me while I share a funny (pun totally intended) with you. I stumbled across A Taxonomy of Cognitive Jokes and the more I read the funnier it became. Maybe I’ve been writing about taxonomies for too long, or maybe I just need more sleep (probably the latter), but this cracked me up. Cognitive jokes…
Read MoreWhat Does the Future Hold for Search?
The act of search continues to evolve and grow as technology does the same. Semantic technology takes search to a new level. It demands that the software understand the information in the way it was intended. For software to comprehend the meaning behind what a human has put to text requires a certain amount of artificial intelligence.
Read MoreWebinar to Assist with ICD-10 Transition
With the many challenges facing healthcare organizations as they prepare for the ICD-10 coding classification transition, many are seeking help.
Read MoreData Deliberations
Big data seems to be on the tongues and minds of many business people. Hands are wringing as folks are unsure what to do with all the big data they are creating. Solutions seem to be presented daily, but how many of them really address the problem? Open source tools appear to be filling up…
Read MoreMeasuring Accuracy in Search
When people talk about how accurate the search is, there are lots of different ways to measure that. This list indicates some of the ways that we talk about measuring accuracy.
Read MoreDon’t Miss the Data Harmony Users Group Meeting on February 18-20, 2013
On Tuesday evening, join us for dinner at the Albuquerque Aquarium, part of the ABQ BioPark, along the majestic Rio Grande in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Our dinner site is next to the 285,000-gallon shark tank, which is home to five species of sharks, several sea turtles, dozens of manta rays and even a few barracudas. (Fear not! Our dinner menu will be different from the inhabitants of the tank! We do not plan to have fish on the menu Tuesday night!)
Read MoreTraining is Even More Important
ICD-10 is no longer a foreign term to anyone in healthcare and now technology. It is a comprehensive, internationally used list designed to code for diseases and other healthcare conditions. It is scheduled to be implemented in two years on October 1, 2014. This switch to ICD-10 requires software updates and staff training. These are challenges for most and require some help.
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