Posts by Melody Smith
Webinar Series To Prepare for ICD-10
Availity has announced a four-part webinar series designed to help medical providers prepare for impending inpatient diagnosis and procedure code changes associated with ICD-10.
Read MoreSharePoint and Search – A Working Pair
One author lifts up some tips on search using SharePoint based on her research. User friendly search results are absolutely in possible with SharePoint. Providing a better end-user search experience is often the major justification for migration.
Read MoreFinding Digital Content
Inergize Digital has announced that it has been working with The Associated Press to integrate story text and metadata from the AP ENPS newsroom system in the Inergize Web CMS.
Read MoreSymmetric Multi-Processing Featured
Allegro CL V9.0 has been released, bringing symmetric multi-processing capabilities that result in faster, more intelligent, and scalable applications.
Read MoreDatomic Free Edition Released
Metadata Partners has released Datomic Free Edition, which was designed to make Datomic easier to get, and use, for open source and small production deployments.
Read MoreCMS Tips for ICD-10
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is offering healthcare providers reading material as they continue to wait for a final ICD-10 deadline ruling.
Read MoreSharegate Adds SharePoint
Sharegate has introduced a new tool to copy Exchange Public Folders to SharePoint. This new feature offers a drag-and-drop interface for migration of content to SharePoint with the complete metadata, authors, and timestamps.
Read MoreSemantic Results with Semantic Technology
Atiego, a semantic analysis company, has used their skills and technology to make it possible to search the archive of the National Institute of Health’s PubMed library. This library consists of more than 400,000 research papers, using a graphical interface rather than just scrolling through pages of results.
Read MoreFinancial Impacts of ICD-10
Few healthcare organizations are unconcerned about what the future holds in regards to the ICD-10 coding classification transition and how that will impact their financial picture.
Read MoreOrganizing Your Taxonomy Terms
Once you have a tentative list of terms for your taxonomy-to-be, it can be a bit overwhelming, especially if you have thousands of terms. (In scientific and technical fields, a typical taxonomy might have 5,000-10,000 terms.) How to start dealing with them all? A good first step is to organize the information into main categories. Choose some logical main areas, and don’t be too concerned up front about whether or not the areas or the initial wordings are exactly what you’ll ultimately want them to be. You’re just roughing things out at this stage. Then use those main areas as buckets, and dump the more specific terms into those buckets.
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