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.

The Challenges of Search

By |April 5th, 2012|News, search|Comments Off on The Challenges of Search

Revising the search query in the world of search is not new news. When a user is looking for results, there is little patience with vague results. Much like Google’s millions of results confuses searchers and often wears them down from continuing the search.

Take Advantage of the Extra Time

By |April 4th, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on Take Advantage of the Extra Time

Many healthcare organization are going forward with their conversion plans, even with the Health and Human Services’ delay of the ICD-10 compliance to be ready by October 1, 2013.

Q-Sensei Chosen as Finalist for IT Innovations Award

By |April 4th, 2012|Business Intelligence, News|Comments Off on Q-Sensei Chosen as Finalist for IT Innovations Award

Q-Sensei has been selected as one of three finalists for the 2012 Innovationspreis-IT (IT Innovations Award), "Knowledge Management" category. This particular category comprises solutions for business intelligence, knowledge management, knowledge engineering, idea management, and innovations management.

Predictions Positive for the Publishing World

By |April 3rd, 2012|indexing, News|Comments Off on Predictions Positive for the Publishing World

Simba Information predicts publishing products and services will grow in 2012 by at least 3%. This increase will be led by the legal, science/technical and medical segments. The leading delivery method is print and electronic books closely followed by online services and abstracting/indexing.

Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 9

By |April 2nd, 2012|Access Insights, Featured, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 9

As we continue the series on search, we are close to wrapping up with a more in-depth look behind the scenes of database management systems. Let’s take a quick look at behind the scenes. We want to connect the database management system to the thesaurus tool so that we can validate the terms and make sure that they are in good shape and, as people are adding records to the database, if they have any suggestions or candidates, we want to lock those in as well. The thesaurus tool will tell you which terms are actually correct, allow you to add, change, and delete, and otherwise manage the term base. Then the indexing is used to actually suggest indexing terms to records as they are loaded to the database management system. That system can be SharePoint, it could be a content management system, it could be a Documentum or a FileNet, or any other thing you want to use as a repository to manage your data. That is driven by the taxonomy.

New Website Emphasizes Concerns in the Healthcare World

ZirMed has made their mark as a provider of revenue cycle and information solutions for healthcare and now have launched www.StartStopICD10.com in response to the February 14th announcement by the Center of Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) of a re-examination of the ICD-10 timeline.

Mapping for ICD-10 Proceeding, Even if the Transition Isn’t

By |March 30th, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on Mapping for ICD-10 Proceeding, Even if the Transition Isn’t

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has released a preview version of a SNOMED CT to ICD-10-CM map to automatically generate ICD-10-CM codes from clinical data entered into electronic health records (EHRs).

New Book Addresses Ontologies

Woodhead Publishing Ltd's new book "Library Classification Trends in the 21st Century" traces the development in and around library classification as reported in literature published in the first decade of the 21st century.