Posts by Melody Smith
Great Gift for Historians
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.
Read MoreGoogle Embracing Semantic Search
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.
Read MoreWhat To Do While Waiting?
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.
Read MoreBusiness Intelligence and Big Data
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.
Read MoreExpertise Can Only Help With the ICD-10 Transition
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.
Read MoreFirst Data Convergence Cloud Launched
Governor Pat Quinn, Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle and Mayor Rahm Emanuel recently unveiled www.MetroChicagoData.org, the nation’s first data convergence cloud that brings public data from the City of Chicago, Cook County and the State of Illinois into a single Open Data portal. With easy access by residents and businesses in the Metro Chicago area, this enhances the previous Internet offering.
Read MorePingar Receives SharePoint Idol Honor
Pingar has received the honor of being named SharePoint Idol at the 2012 Australia SharePoint Conference held in Melbourne last month. Pingar demonstrated its patent-pending API components to augment SharePoint’s capabilities by automatically adding metadata to documents, thus giving organizations the ability to search, share and summarize previously unstructured data.
Read MoreLeveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 10 (Taxonomies in SharePoint)
I hope this series on search has been helpful to users and professionals alike. Let’s close with a look at taxonomies in SharePoint. Let’s look at this data flow in another way. We have incoming information; going to dump into a repository. We need to add metadata to that repository. We want to add taxonomy terms. The taxonomy terms all need to be controlled or suggested. So, there’s a backend to do that. Once we have the data in that repository it could be exported to a SQL or a relational database, transactional system, for e-commerce. It might be put into a repository so that the full displays can be done. It might be loaded into a search system and you also might have a presentation layer for display.
Read MoreDelay or Change Direction?
The announcement made by the CMS and HHS last month to delay the compliance deadline for the ICD-10 transitions has created a lot of concerns and discussion. Many wonder what is next, should they stop their progress or continue on?
Read MoreSemantic Technology Used by Insurance Firm
Helvetia Seguros has placed their trust in the semantic search engine of the semantic web and artificial intelligence firm iSOCO, in an attempt to improve the insurance company’s current incident management system.
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