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.

Founder/President of Access Innovations Receives Prestigious Ann Marie Cunningham Award From NFAIS

By |March 13th, 2012|Access Insights, News, Standards|Comments Off on Founder/President of Access Innovations Receives Prestigious Ann Marie Cunningham Award From NFAIS

Marjorie M.K. Hlava, founder and CEO of Access Innovations, recently received the prestigious Ann Marie Cunningham Award for outstanding service from NFAIS (the National Federation of Advanced information Services.)

HCL Tagged by Blue Shield of California for ICD-10 Transition

By |March 13th, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on HCL Tagged by Blue Shield of California for ICD-10 Transition

HCL Technologies has been chosen by Blue Shield of California to utilize their iCRM web based tool to complete its ICD 10 remediation to meet the compliance deadline of October 2013. Of course, now we know that the October 2013 deadline will be changed.

Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 6

By |March 12th, 2012|Access Insights, Featured, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 6

This is the next piece in our series of blog posts on search and how it works. Last week we ended with natural language processing and we are picking up this week on automatic language processing or ALP.

ICD-10 Deadline Changing

By |March 12th, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on ICD-10 Deadline Changing

We have all heard the news that the ICD-10 implementation timeframe is being revisited. A final decision on the new date has not been made.

Semantic Technology in Manufacturing

By |March 9th, 2012|Autoindexing, News, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Technology in Manufacturing

Inforbix has released two new products that seamlessly aggregate product data from different file types and locations. With a history in cloud-based product data access applications, these products use semantic technology that automatically infer relationships between disparate sources of data.

Learn More About Cloud Computing

By |March 9th, 2012|News|Comments Off on Learn More About Cloud Computing

Been craving a trip to the Big Apple? Here is a good reason to justify it to your accountant, boss or spouse. The 10th International Cloud Expo is scheduled for June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York. This will be the playground for leading cloud industry players.

No Ontology? Hmpf!

By |March 9th, 2012|News, ontology, semantic|Comments Off on No Ontology? Hmpf!

Lucky Sort is building a visualization and navigation engine called TopicWatch meant for discovering patterns in live data streams. Information overload may soon become a thing of the past with this new product. Imagine sifting through social media, government filings, news and commentary in real time, on your iPad.

Hurry Up and Wait

By |March 8th, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on Hurry Up and Wait

Many are frustrated about the recent decision by HHS to postpone the scheduled October 13, 2013 compliance date for the industry to switch to the ICD-10 system. After all the preparations, training and investment healthcare organization have put forward to make this happen, the government is taking a back step.

Understanding Intention

By |March 8th, 2012|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on Understanding Intention

Fact-Finder is a well-known semantic search guru that just went live on a German online travel agency. This recent international adventure was the brain-child of Carsten Kraus, Fact-Finder founder.

Smart Search Equals Smart Content

By |March 8th, 2012|News, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Smart Search Equals Smart Content

Medical search engine and database tools aren’t all equal. Depending on your needs, a clinician could gain access to dynamic data to diagnose and treat patients must faster than ever before. One of these options is ClinicalKey, which is now in beta testing.