Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has completed the transition to the NextGate Multi-Language EMPI. This was their choice solution for Patient Centric View initiatives. The NextGate Multi-Language EMPI replaces their incumbent solution.
There’s been some discussion recently in the Taxonomy Community of Practice LinkedIn group about free or low cost thesaurus management software. I’ve noticed a dearth of postings about using Excel, a very popular tool, particularly if you already have a Microsoft Office license. Experts disparage Excel as a tool, but it can provide a way to start your thesaurus development. And, if you are mindful of organizing your Excel worksheet so that its data can be imported later into a dedicated tool, you can achieve some important objectives. Excel is indeed the most popular thesaurus management tool. (see Taxonomy & metadata strategies for effective content management workshop slides in which taxonomy expert Joe Busch reiterates this.)
The changes in retail traffic and popularity of things like GroupOn, Try It Local, etc. is motivating GeoCommerce to complete the process of consummating strategic relationships to ensure their footing in the future of consumer identification and authentication.
No one will argue that America’s out-of-control healthcare costs needs an anti-inflammatory. Many contend that consumer driven medicine is the wrong way to handle the problem.
EffectiveSoft has released a new version of Intellexer Summarizer, the feature that recognizes names of people, places, etc. and relates between them. Semantic technology is available to everyone, so the solutions from EffectiveSoft company are no exception. However, their new version does offer a more precise summary of query. This allows the user to carry out scientific and analytical researches in an efficient and timely manner.
Historians and genealogists are celebrating across the country. Okay, that might be a bit of a stretch, but I feel certain they are eager to review the new release of the Great Depression era census data.
Word on the street is Google is set to enhance their search engine results to consider the meaning of a search query instead of picking solely at specific keywords.
Some healthcare organizations and physicians are worried about what the Dept. of Health and Human Services’ decision to delay the compliance deadline for ICD-10 diagnosis code sets that was scheduled for Oct. 1, 2013 means? But for some, it is an opportunity to focus on more pressing issues while working toward the eventual transition to ICD-10.
Big data is becoming a common term as organizations are wondering about business intelligence and how they could derive some from all the information at their disposal. The awareness of big data is good, however the time is coming and organizations will need the infrastructure to help them make sense of the data and secure it.
The Huntzinger Management Group has hired healthcare executive Nancy Chapman to their roster which adds more than 25 years of provider operations and IT experience. This will come in handy when helping clients transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10.