Social Connections

With the increase in social media applications and the use of those applications, there are always new and varied ways to monitor customer sentiment. The basic technology employed for sentiment analysis includes natural language processing, computational linguistics, and text analytics. Identifying and extracting subjective information from a variety of sources (such as web pages, online news, internet discussion groups, and social media) can produce interesting and useful data.

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Coding Requires Training

The impending ICD-10 coding classification transition is affecting all healthcare providers, but physicians are experiencing concerns that are more personal. Even though the delay was postponed until October 2014, physicians are concerned about the financial impact this new billing code system will have on their cash flow and reimbursements.

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Open and Social

LinkedIn has open sourced all the software that it had acquired in the acquisition of the search engine software maker IndexTank. Now LinkedIn has joined the elite few of social media platforms that have already made their internal codes available to the open source developer community.

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Indexing History

One county historical society is indexing images of civil and criminal offenses of the late 1800s to make the archives available to the public. All indexing has been done by hand and by volunteers. To date, nearly 1000 court cases from that era have been scanned and indexed.

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