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.

Help is Available

By |December 28th, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|1 Comment

ICD-10 is a frequent topic, and the challenges of the transition continue to stay on the minds and lips of most healthcare professionals. Some physicians are feeling the frustration of losing quality patient healthcare time to handle the coding and technical side of this update.

Increasing Specificity

By |December 28th, 2012|News, semantic|Comments Off on Increasing Specificity

Digilant has released their marketing system designed to pinpoint specific audiences. Diligant Multicultural uses semantic language and geographic information to match a preferred audience in a variety of advertising placements.

Planning Ahead

By |December 27th, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on Planning Ahead

The ICD-10 transition will require new technology and workflow adjustments for everyone involved. The implementation is set for October 1, 2014 and will have five times the number of codes than its predecessor.

Going Open

By |December 26th, 2012|News|Comments Off on Going Open

The Open Group has announced the availability of two new industry standards that enable businesses to embrace elements of service-oriented architecture and cloud computing.

Understanding the Architecture

By |December 25th, 2012|News, Standards|Comments Off on Understanding the Architecture

Information architecture can be a high-level topic for some. At its most basic, it is about how to choose the right way to structure information and in turn, how to help people navigate it.