Posts by Melody Smith
Preparing for ICD-10
Health Language has partnered with Siemens Healthcare to offer enterprise-wide ICD-10 remediation services. Now Siemens customers will be better able to meet the ICD-10 compliance.
Read MoreOffice in the Clouds
A new software for human resources, project, task, and scheduling management has been launched for small or large companies. The new semYOU Cloud Office is a complete software infrastructure for organizations to work globally and collaborate with different partners worldwide.
Read MoreHoosier Databases Made Searchable
It seems more and more local governments are digitizing old census records lately. The genealogy hobby has grown exponentially with the unlimited access the Internet provides so it appears that historical societies, libraries and city halls are responding to the increase in requests.
Read MoreSemantic Activity
At the beginning of the year, one author predicted that 2012 would be the year of the semantic web. At the half-way point he is revisiting that to see where those predictions stand now.
Read MoreDigitizing Project Creating a Buzz
The Florida International University library has acquired the Enrique Hurtado de Mendoza collection and is in the process of digitizing the collection to be made available through the library’s website.
Read MoreThoughts on ORCID
A new and powerful tool is headed our way. I believe it has the potential to change the way we interact with researchers, contributors and authors in general.
I have already reported on the Contributor ID meeting in Boston mid-May. One of the main reasons for the timing of that meeting was the ORCID Outreach meeting to be held at the Microsoft office next to MIT in Cambridge. The aim of ORCID is to “solve the name ambiguity problem in scholarly communications by creating a registry of persistent unique identifiers for individual researchers and an open and transparent linking mechanism between ORCID, other ID schemes, and research objects such as publications, grants, and patents.”
Read MoreKnowledge Management In Education
The Department for Education began a process towards knowledge management several years ago. An information audit led to a revamp of systems and approaches towards information. It responded with a knowledge management strategy including the Information Workplace Platform (IWP), which provides integrated information, collaboration and business services to thousands of employees. This interesting news was…
Read MoreArtificial Intelligence Not Quite There Yet
Technology continues to amaze us. Remember when a fax machine impressed us? Now they are teaching computers to analyze and understand the real world, or at least they are trying.
Read MoreThe Implementation Costs Continue
The Center for Health and Human Services recently announced the new deadline for the ICD-10 coding classification transition was being postponed to October 1, 2014. Healthcare providers are struggling to meet the requirements without breaking the bank. It is easy to see the dollars and more dollars and more dollars being spent (sorry I derailed), but the return on investment is much more ambiguous.
Read MoreCompatibility Can Assist in Finding Your Data
Drupal combines their business workflow tools seamlessly with a suite of core modules like of, such as taxonomy and roles. Their tutorial helps users learn how to create a corporate collaborative authoring system without having to resort to writing PHP code.
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