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.

Pilot Program Offered for Semantic Project

By |March 2nd, 2012|News, semantic|Comments Off on Pilot Program Offered for Semantic Project

Kyield has announced a new pilot program for its patented semantic enterprise platform. This particular artificial intelligence system provides a holistic architecture that extends advanced business intelligence and predictive analytics to all information workers in the organization.

Finding Data Faster and Easier

By |March 1st, 2012|News|Comments Off on Finding Data Faster and Easier

KnowledgeTree has unveiled new tools for their Personal Cloud Edition of SaaS document management and workflow offering. These tools are designed to make business documents easier to find and share.

Smarter Assistants Are Possible

By |February 29th, 2012|News, semantic|Comments Off on Smarter Assistants Are Possible

Siri, IBM’s Watson and other such services are good examples of how smart personal assistants are increasingly listening and understanding what is being said. Computers are increasingly using natural language processing, semantic analysis, and machine learning, combined with data to understand humans, conjure up answers and recommendations or direct people to services and information.

Social Collaboration for Non-Profits

By |February 29th, 2012|News|Comments Off on Social Collaboration for Non-Profits

Several Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) opportunities are working to bring social collaboration to non and for-profit organizations. One example is Socialtext, who has recently launched a strategic partnership with NetDocuments. ClimateWorks Foundation uses the Socialtext application to enable its global network of non-profits to collaborate and share best practices. This social knowledge exchange is a different approach for the non-profit sector.

Doctor Who?

By |February 28th, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on Doctor Who?

Healthcare systems are or should be, frantically preparing for the ICD-10 transition. But what about the physicians? Is someone paying enough attention in their preparation? They will be responsible for the clinical documentation required when the number of diagnosis codes jumps from 14,000 to 68,000 next year.

Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 4

By |February 27th, 2012|Access Insights, Featured, search|Comments Off on Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 4

As we continue this series on search and how it works, we have to address accuracy. First, how are we are going to measure accuracy?

Bizarre ICD-10 Codes

By |February 27th, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|2 Comments

With all the concern and stress around the ICD-10 implementation, there is some levity to be found. Outlandish types of ICD-10 codes have been compiled for our viewing pleasure.

Simba Releases ODBC SDK 9

By |February 27th, 2012|indexing, News|Comments Off on Simba Releases ODBC SDK 9

Simba Technologies has released SimbaEngine ODBC SDK 9, which offers deeper customizability, new data driver deployment configurations and additional support for big data and cloud database platforms.