Posts by Melody Smith
Plan and Prepare
Many articles have been written here and other places about the ICD-10 coding classification transition and the fast approaching deadline of October 2014. Thorough and complex information has been provided to healthcare organizations to help them prepare for this huge change.
Read MoreWhy is a consultant not a “vendor?”
It’s time to consider “services” to be “products,” at least where meetings and conferences are concerned.
Wikipedia says “IBM treats its business as a service business. Although it still manufactures computers, it sees the physical goods as a small part of the “business solutions” industry. They have found that the price of demand for “business solutions” is much lower than for hardware. There has been a corresponding shift to a subscription pricing model. Rather than receiving a single payment for a piece of manufactured equipment, many manufacturers are now receiving a steady stream of revenue for ongoing contracts.” The change is significant.
Read MoreDon’t Miss the Data Harmony Users Group Meeting Feb. 18 – 20, 2013
Here are two more of the exciting, in-depth case studies we have planned for you at this year’s meeting.
Semantic Enrichment and Disambiguation for AIP’s Scitation Platform: Evan Owens, CIO, Publishing, American Institute of Physics
In Spring 2013, AIP Publishing will be launching the next generation of its Scitation e-journal hosting platform on Publishing Technology’s pub2web software. All content will be semantically enriched using the new AIP Thesaurus, the development of which was described at the 2012 Data Harmony User Group meeting. The enriched content will be used to create subject pages and enhanced search capabilities. This replaces the PACS classification scheme currently used by AIP publications.
Read MoreWhat To Do With All The Data?
Metadata is created every moment of every day. Every phone call, every search query, every photo we take creates metadata. It is most likely not something we think of when we create it and certainly we don’t think of how and where it is stored. Sure, we have files on thumb drives and data cards, but that is just a drop in the bucket metadata-wise.
Read MoreAdditional Challenges of ICD-10 Conversion
Medical professionals are always concerned about healthcare fraud and with the impending ICD-10 transition, this concerns increases. Detection relies on complex algorithms to detect outliers in claims data, but the concern is that ICD-10 may challenge these algorithms and render them less than efficient.
Read MorePlan Now to Attend the Data Harmony Users Group Meeting, February 18 – 20, 2013
Registration is now open for the Ninth Annual Data Harmony Users Group Meeting. Sessions will be held February 18-20, 2013 at Access Innovations, 4725 Indian School Road NE, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The DHUG meeting focuses on helping users get the most from their investment in the knowledge management software suite, which supports user organization of their information resources based on a well-built and systematically applied taxonomy or thesaurus.
Read MoreMobile Taxonomy Launched
Earley & Associates (E&A) have released Information Architecture (IA) and indexing services for mobile application providers. Their mobile content architecture services address taxonomy development, content tagging, and user interface design.
Read MorePapal Tweets Get Analyzed
The Pope tweeted. Yes, you read correctly. Pope Benedict XVI, now known in the Twitter-sphere as @pontifex, tweeted for the first time on December 12, 2012. What did the Bishop of Rome have to talk about? Expert System analyzed a sample of over 15,000 tweets that followed the Pope’s first official tweet and ranking at the top in topics were Jesus, faith and prayer, as well as hope, family, life, love, work and the gospel.
Read MoreStart with a Solid Foundation
lifeIMAGE offers cloud-based software that facilitates transferring, indexing, and searching for digital medical images to help prevent redundant patient exams. In addition to saving time and money, this can also reduce radiation exposure for patients. In addition, a cloud-based service can help providers securely and automatically share results of imaging exams in the cloud. lifeIMAGE products include open application software interfaces for healthcare information technology companies to use to facilitate data exchange between healthcare providers.
Read MoreTraining is Recommended
With the ICD-10 conversion less than two years away, there are pressing issues for providers looking to implement the new coding classification system. At the top of the “to-do” list is education and training for the staff who will be directly involved in using the new ICD-10 codes.
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