Speeding Up IT Purchasing
Purchasing isn’t easy in any business, but for information technology professionals, the endless variations of the same product and dissimilar ways to describe the products, it can be a real challenge.
Semantic Technology Changes Things
As humans, we need context and narrative to discern the meanings of facial expressions, word usage and many other life situations. This is what makes us different from say, animals and machines.
How Much More Can They Take?
DATAMARK has launched a national survey to gather a snapshot of the healthcare industry's preparation for reform in the shadow of the pending U.S. Supreme Court decision on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Of Taxonomies, Biology, and Moneyball
Baseball and biology are not commonly found in the same conceptual space. Neither do you find taxonomy associated with baseball, but in recent news these connections were made. Grant Bisbee, editor of “Baseball Nation”, digresses into the arcane as he laments the coming of the “He’s In the Best Shape of His Life” season. This is the time of year baseball writers must assess the prospects for the coming season, and clichés and hyperbole reign. The dubious practice of evaluating the physical condition of players runs rampant as spring training begins. With tongue in cheek, Bisbee tries to shape a taxonomy to classify this spring ritual. His would be the taxonomy of the “In the Best-shape Stories”.
Indefinite Postponement?
The American Medical Association has stated their preference of the ICD-10 implementation date being delayed to Oct. 1, 2015. This was in response to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services decision to postpone the original ICD-10 coding classification transition from October 1, 2013 to October 1, 2014. In fact, they also stated that if stakeholders cannot reach consensus on this matter during this two-year delay period, then the move to ICD-10 should be postponed indefinitely.
More Findability Made Possible
Using EBSCO Discovery Service from EBSCO Publishing, the Freedonia Group’s Focus Reports Collection providing, US, World and International, country specific market research will now be searchable.
Another Vote for the Delay
The Federation of American Hospitals (FAH) has chimed in on the debate over the delay of the ICD-10 implementation, and they believe the one-year delay will be beneficial. The federation also believes that all segments of the healthcare industry should transition to ICD-10 at the same time.
NISO Release SERU
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has released the new edition of the recommended practice SERU: A Shared Electronic Resource Understanding (NISO RP-7-2012).
Published Articles by Chinese Authors Increasing
China is fast becoming a global leader in scientific publishing and scientific research. Papers with authors from China now represent 6.6 % of the 3,425 papers published in Nature journals in 2011. This is up from 5.3 percent in 2010.