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.

The Costs of ICD-10 Continue to Rise

By |July 13th, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on The Costs of ICD-10 Continue to Rise

ICD-10 implementation costs continue to be a concern for healthcare organizations and a common topic of conversations throughout conferences, networking and probably across a few bar stools. The extended deadline to October 2014 didn't diminish that concern. In fact in some cases, it probably added to the pressure. The costs associated to the transition can easily reach a quarter to half a billion dollars for the information technology, training and other upgrades.

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Pin That

By |July 12th, 2012|News|Comments Off on Pin That

Many organizations are able to recognize the opportunity that social media offers to their marketing efforts. I think convincing them that Facebook is a unique way to interact with their customers and drive sales is now easy, or at least easier than say, two years ago. But who would have thought Pinterest would get their interest?

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Maintaining Your Creation

By |July 12th, 2012|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Maintaining Your Creation

There is always talk about developing taxonomies - the process, the standards, etc. But a major part of a dynamic taxonomy and healthy document management systems is the maintenance required for taxonimies.

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Semantic Technology Conference To Be Held In London

By |July 12th, 2012|News, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Technology Conference To Be Held In London

This year's Semantic Technology and Business Conference feature leaders and practitioners to explore the many challenges businesses face and how semantic technology can be a solution. This year's line-up of speakers includes Professor Nigel Shadbolt, Co-Director, Open Data Institute. The two day conference is packed with case studies and real-world perspectives.

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Surfing the Semantic Web

By |July 11th, 2012|News, semantic|Comments Off on Surfing the Semantic Web

Even though the definition of the semantic web may still up for debate, many of us use it or its close cousin on a daily basis. They are not advertised as semantic, but services such as Apple’s Siri and Google’s new Knowledge Graph all use semantics to drive their technology.

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Partnering to Address ICD-10 Transition

By |July 11th, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on Partnering to Address ICD-10 Transition

Edifecs, Inc. was chosen by Molina Healthcare as a strategic technology partner to address the ICD-10 coding classification transition.

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New Integration Increases Findability

By |July 11th, 2012|indexing, News, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on New Integration Increases Findability

EBSCO Publishing and Innovative Interfaces, Inc. have expanded their collaboration by enabling a more tightly integrated access between EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) and Innovative’s Encore discovery platform.

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Apple Looking to Connect Metadata and Social Networks

By |July 10th, 2012|metadata, News|Comments Off on Apple Looking to Connect Metadata and Social Networks

Apple has recently filed a patent application that describes a method for obtaining and adding metadata to files automatically using the Internet and various social networks. This interesting approach demonstrates Apple's interest in creating connections with social networks.

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MAVIS Breaking Walls in Technology

By |July 10th, 2012|indexing, News, search|Comments Off on MAVIS Breaking Walls in Technology

Real-time, speaker-independent, automatic speech recognition was a focus of Microsoft Research, and the result produced the Deep-Neural-Network Speech Recognition based MAVIS. MAVIS (Microsoft Audio Video Indexing Service) indexes audio and video content and then allows users to search for a particular word or phrase across the entire content.

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Quantum Addresses Large e-Discovery Project

By |July 10th, 2012|indexing, News, search|Comments Off on Quantum Addresses Large e-Discovery Project

Quantum Discovery recently assisted a Top 100 Law Firm on an e-discovery project and document review with a data set containing approximately 415GB of email and network data. The approximately 2 million records could easily have overwhelmed any team using the traditional search term approach, but Quantum Discovery utilized Lateral Data's Viewpoint TAR (Technology Assisted Review).

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