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.

SharePoint Support by MetaVis Announced

By |July 27th, 2012|News|Comments Off on SharePoint Support by MetaVis Announced

MetaVis Technologies has announced full support for SharePoint 2013 by providing tools for SharePoint migration and administration.

Big Data Providing Great Opportunity from Healthcare

As big data continues to dominate the technology topics, healthcare is quickly becoming the arena. Leaders in healthcare organizations understand that data analysis can change how they operate. Maybe this was driven by the ICD-10 coding classification transition that has been a huge concern for the past year and will continue to be until the deadline of October 2013 arrives.

Grant Enables Ontology Based Database

By |July 26th, 2012|News, ontology|Comments Off on Grant Enables Ontology Based Database

Miller School researchers have received a $2.5 million grant to develop a novel database to enable neuroscientists to search the voluminous number of studies related to nervous system repair, and link relevant data from those studies to other resources.

Semantic Technology Used in Police Data Search

By |July 25th, 2012|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Technology Used in Police Data Search

New Zealand Police have embraced semantic search technology in their three 24x7 contact centers. The search engine technology was developed locally by Wellington-based software company Syl Semantics.

General Approaches to Creating a Taxonomy

By |July 23rd, 2012|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on General Approaches to Creating a Taxonomy

There are several ways to create a taxonomy. One is from the existing data, which is my preferred method. You can also do it as an intellectual outline of the discipline, thinking about what ought to be included in this discipline. That is what the monks did many years ago in their cold towers on those mountainsides. Few of us have that luxury. Most of us will be dealing with a specific corpus of information.

New Technology Accelerates ICD-10 Transition

Optum has launched its latest coding technology product, Optum Enterprise CAC. This computer-assisted coding (CAC) platform can help healthcare organizations accelerate their transition to ICD-10, as well as increase productivity and simplify coding and documentation processes.

The Challenges of ICD-10

By |July 20th, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on The Challenges of ICD-10

In order to receive reimbursement for patient claims, healthcare providers will have to begin using a new coding classification for medical diagnosis and inpatient procedures before October 1, 2014. That seems like far in the future, but when you realize the comprehensive and complicated processes involved in transitioning, many think it isn't long enough. The number of possible diagnostic codes will increase from 14,000 to 68,000, while the number of inpatient codes will increase from 4,000 to 87,000.

Web Content Has Improved

By |July 19th, 2012|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on Web Content Has Improved

With all the talk about Web 2.0 and looking towards Web 3.0 of late, has the fact that the information available on the web has become more comprehensive and detailed gotten lost? The focus has been about social sharing, collaboration and user-generated content.

ICD-10 Reasoning

By |July 19th, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on ICD-10 Reasoning

In the midst of the delay - no delay debacle, it seems like when was the burning question? Some ponder that the question should have been why? Why transition to ICD-10 at all? The reasons often given for a new coding classification often involves the need to update the data structure or to provide for more codes. Considering the new ICD-10 has five times more codes than its predecessor, it may have been part of the goal regardless of being part of the reason.