Posts by Melody Smith
Accessing Large Amounts of Data
HP and Alcatel-Lucent have worked together to develop a solution to help organizations address large amounts of data. By integrating data center infrastructure technology and high-performance communications, moving, storing and accessing this data has become much more manageable.
Read MoreNew Upgrade to be Standards Compliant
SequelMed, Inc. has released an upgrade to compliance with ANSI 5010 for its EMR, EHR and Practice Management software products. This update will enable users to send HIPAA 5010 compliant claims as per the requirements set forth by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. MarketWatch brought this news to our attention in their article,…
Read MoreRemember Google+?
The latest player in the social media arena, Google + has had a dismal start and experienced non-existent growth. There seems to be some pseudo-taxonomy of social media that labels various sites for various purposes, i.e. Facebook is for pictures of kids, Twitter is for news, and LinkedIn for recruitment. I don’t think I agree with that totally and to be completely honest, I’ve not given Google+ a try. However, the ability to segment your followers and therefore, your conversations is a feature that seems like it would have a following.
Read MoreSocial Reading
In this day and age of social media infiltrating every area of our lives, for good or bad, there is one area that has resisted this trend (at least up until now) – books. Perhaps the last refuge from social media, many go to find shelter from the friending and tweeting in their comforting pages and worn binding. Unfortunately, this once solitary refuge is looking to join the social realm as companies like Copia and BookGlutton look to jump on board.
Read MoreDiscovery Services Aid the Professionals
Connecting users with the information they seek is one of the central pillars of the very honorable librarian profession. The web-scale discovery services for libraries provide quick searching seamlessly across various components of indexed content.
Read MoreTaking Advantage of the New Deadline
Even though we finally have a new ICD-10 implementation deadline, will just an extra 12 months really make a difference? Some ponder that healthcare providers who were on track to comply by Oct. 1, 2013 now have a chance to strengthen their plans and those who were behind now get a chance to catch up.
Read MorePandora Kicks It Up A Notch
Pandora is known as one of the most popular personalized radio services out there and now they have rolled out the ‘Inside the Music’ program, in partnership with Intel. The program offers users the opportunity to explore behind-the-scenes of the Pandora Music Genome Project providing them with all necessary information on their favorite music.
Read MoreSemantic Search Technology Used by New Start-up
Big data startup, PureDiscovery, is offering an answer to outdated enterprise search technology. Brainspace can learn just about everything about how pieces of content are related to one another. That means users will become less dependent on searching for information because the platform will feed them what they want to know as they interact with other content.
Read MoreBig Data Analytics – The Popular Kid
Big data analytics is becoming more and more common. Quantivo now offers big-data analytics to corporations of all sizes using a cloud-based architecture. This patented technology will enable customers to harness information that has been buried in big data at a fraction of the cost of using other methods.
Read MoreSciVerse Chosen by Researchers
Netherlands publisher Elsevier has announced that the European Research Council (ERC) has selected the SciVerse Scopus database to assist in the tracking and awarding of funding opportunities for researchers throughout the world.
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