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.

TEMIS Chosen by Gannett

By |April 20th, 2012|News, semantic, Taxonomy|Comments Off on TEMIS Chosen by Gannett

TEMIS was chosen by Gannett for its semantic content enrichment solution better known as Luxid. Their semantic tagging and linking software as a tagging engine assists in the categorization of news articles and consistent indexing of content against a common taxonomy.

Elsevier Recommends Continuing the Process

By |April 19th, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on Elsevier Recommends Continuing the Process

Elsevier/MC Strategies has announced its continued commitment to the ICD-10 transition and the introduction of a major revision to its e-book, A Guide to Education and Training for ICD-10 Implementation. Makes one wonder if the revision is about what to do in case of a delay?

It’s All Semantic

By |April 19th, 2012|News, ontology, semantic|Comments Off on It’s All Semantic

Seamless integration of knowledge and data is a requirement for modern healthcare systems. Being able to respond quickly to a patient’s needs is priority. With various information systems being utilized to streamline and automate patient care processes, semantic technology is a need of its own.

Indexing Patent Issued

By |April 19th, 2012|Autoindexing, News|Comments Off on Indexing Patent Issued

Decernis receives new patent for an indexing system and method to identify and validate chemicals, foods, and commodities in documents and databases. This innovation enables a user to find any reference to a food, chemical, or contaminant in any language across the Internet.

Can You Have Your Cake and Eat It Too?

By |April 18th, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on Can You Have Your Cake and Eat It Too?

There is little middle-ground when it comes to the ICD-10 implementation deadline delay. Debates on both sides believe passionately that there are merits of staying the course in preparation or using cash on hand for definite causes. Some believe you don’t have to choose. They believe that clinical documentation assessments and improvement efforts can benefit organizations now, despite of what the results of the delay will be.

Social Media Becomes New Zealand

By |April 18th, 2012|News|Comments Off on Social Media Becomes New Zealand

New Zealand’s government will be focusing on social media and on the government’s role for identity management and network security in the coming year.

What Impact Will the ICD-10 Delay Have on Salaries?

By |April 17th, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on What Impact Will the ICD-10 Delay Have on Salaries?

Experts are predicting that hospital employees can expect to earn slightly more in 2012 due to the focus on ICD-10 coding classification transition.

Search and Semantic – Google’s New Recipe

By |April 17th, 2012|News, ontology, search, semantic|Comments Off on Search and Semantic – Google’s New Recipe

Google’s upcoming search makeover has many people worried. Even though semantic technology has been embedded in search for years, Google’s plan to include more of it has some worried.