EBSCO Launches eBook Subscription
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Preparing for the Deadline
Many are concerned about the delay in the ICD-10 compliance deadline and worry that in actuality, it won't improve readiness and could even harm other health reform efforts.
Semantic Consumerism
New York-based Precision Health Media continues to raise funds in venture capital, supporting their technology platform for health brands called ConditionMatch. The platform uses semantic analysis to identify Web pages that contain content about commonly diagnosed health conditions, such as diabetes, depression, and allergies. Then it places ads for products related to those conditions on appropriate pages. This is why when you look up the symptoms of acid reflux, conveniently a coupon for Prilosec shows up on the side of the page.
Take Advantage of the Delay
Gateway EDI is continuing their training and credentialing in the medical coding industry regardless of the delay of the October 2013 deadline for complete ICD-10 transition.
Security Fears in the Clouds
Cloud computing is the topic of choice lately, but there are many hurdles preventing its adoption, i.e. privacy fears. This is a particular important issue for potential customers so those in the “biz” are working hard to develop new skills and technologies to relieve their concerns.
New Semantic Search Engine
A new semantic search engine that classifies and analyzes the meaning of text has been developed by NEC. Now users will be able to locate text related to a keyword by referencing keyword aspects, thus enabling a more dynamic search result.
Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 8
As we continue the series on search and how it works we are looking at file indexes more completely, more specifically complex inverted file indexes. Stemming is the de-pluralization or removing the gerund endings. It is also called lemmatization. Truncation – left and right – are popular parts of search. Right, in some cases, chopping a word off at its end; is pretty easy. Left-hand truncation is hard because if you look at this wild card in the word ‘organization’ which can be spelled with either an ‘s’ or a ‘z’, depending on where you are from, the ‘-ation’ can be chopped off pretty easily but the right part, I have to build an entire index, starting with o, or, org, org, so that I can go through all of those to see where the full extension is. When people do left-hand truncation, it is a lot more expensive. It is a much bigger, additional index.
The Impact of Additional Delay
The Medical Group Management Association wants the Department of Health and Human Services to do more than delay ICD-10 implementation, they believe additional steps should be included in the ICD-10 timeline for what they call “due diligence.”
Delay Causes Dissent
The topic of every conversation in healthcare organizations far and wide is the delay in the ICD-10 implementation. The pro-ICD-10 crowd insists ICD-10 should not be delayed and their voices are getting louder.
Semantic Search Used in Discovery
PureDiscovery is combing their semantic discovery technology with LexisNexis® LAW PreDiscovery. This integration will help litigation discovery professionals find the most relevant documents faster than ever before. Semantic search technology allows the system to 'learn' as litigation documents are uploaded and searched. By applying the intelligence gathered to run smarter searches and help produce precise search results, the results will be much more comprehensive.