Search and Semantics
Search engine optimization is a constant challenge for marketers, and that may have gotten easier or more difficult with semantic technology. The users can go either way on that one.
Winning with Social Media
The power of social media has often been discussed here. The power it possesses in connecting with customers and consitutuents cannot be debunked. One of our own Access programmers is utilizing social media to reach his own constituents. Alexander Lyons is a gifted musical artist in addition to writing amazing code for us. He has recently released his debut CD - My First Ten - full of his own original material.
Healthcare Organizations Prepare for the Deadline
Health Revenue Assurance Holdings was selected by the Summa Health System to provide ICD-10 transition services. This is another in a chain of healthcare providers moving forward towards meeting the deadline of October 2014.
Deadlines and Plans
If you look at the calendar and you rely on ICD coding, it is easy to see we are two years away from the much dreaded deadline for the ICD-10 implementation. Where are you in your plan for preparation and implementation?
Taxonomies and Standards
We’ve discussed what it takes to make the components of a digital information model work but one of the things that is most important, if you want it all to work together, is standards. There are several controlled vocabulary standards, as well as networking protocols that have an impact on taxonomy implementation. There are also standards having to do with markup and with metadata and data modeling that impact thesauri.
EBSCO Releases Humanities Source
EBSCO has released a new resource for the humanities field. Humanities Source was developed from a merger of high-quality databases from EBSCO Publishing and H.W. Wilson, and includes sources that were never previously available.
The Year of Change
In a few short weeks, we will be in 2013 and though the deadline was extended to October 2014, this impending year will be a busy one for healthcare providers. Getting the project to the milestones will be key to meeting the deadline with a the technology and training needed to make it successful. The American Medical Association (AMA) has provided a fact sheet to help practices establish timeframes for transition activities, breaking down the process into a series of manageable steps.
SharePoint 2013 Presents New Features
With the SharePoint 2013 public beta released, WAND DataFacet Automatic Tagging Engine is on target to provide advanced tagging capabilities to SharePoint 2013.
Mark Your Calendars
The 2013 Special Libraries Association (SLA) Leadership Summit is scheduled for February 6-9, 2013 in Dallas, Texas. Plan today to join SLA unit leaders, the SLA Board of Directors and headquarters staff at this exciting event.