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.

Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 2

By |February 13th, 2012|Access Insights, Featured, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 2

This series of blog posts is exploring how search works. We need to have a basic understanding of search fundamentals in order to know where taxonomies come in. Last week we started with the various modules of search. This week we are addressing the search software itself.

ICD-10 Projects Need to Be Managed

By |February 13th, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on ICD-10 Projects Need to Be Managed

With the large ICD-10 implementation looming in the not so distant future, many think that providers need to put more of an emphasis on planning and organization when it comes to these types of projects.

New Version of DocumentPower Enteprise Released

By |February 13th, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on New Version of DocumentPower Enteprise Released

McLeod Software has released a new version of their DocumentPower Enterprise business process management and automation solution. This new version includes an expanded set of bar code capabilities and enhancements that gives companies greater flexibility and accuracy in auto-indexing.

ICD-10 and Its Impact on Patients

By |February 10th, 2012|Autoindexing, News|Comments Off on ICD-10 and Its Impact on Patients

With all the talks about the inconvenience and challenges of the ICD-10 coding transition, a common argument is that it will not benefit patient care. Considering medical coding is not an actual treatment for patients, that is probably true. However, as it improves the system as a whole, wouldn’t patients benefit somehow, even if it is remotely?

Political Semantic Analysis

By |February 10th, 2012|News, semantic|Comments Off on Political Semantic Analysis

SocialMatica is using their social media analytics and their new dashboard displays to feature the volume of conversations about each presidential candidate. By analyzing the data from various web channels and social media sources, their semantic data intelligence engine is able to collect and understand not only who is talking about the candidates but analyzed data on the influence it has on their rankings.

Help is Available for ICD-10 Transition

By |February 9th, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on Help is Available for ICD-10 Transition

With the transition to ICD-10 coding classification system expected to take effect in less than two years, providers are facing changes in virtually every corner of their organizations. Many IT professionals have stepped up to to help them prepare. McKesson recently announced an ICD-10 Transition Service that takes a three-step approach to help organizations move to the new coding system regardless of their information systems vendor. The service starts with a readiness assessment, to compare the provider's current technology.

Great Britain Education System Looks to Beef Up Computer Science Curriculum

By |February 9th, 2012|News, Technology|Comments Off on Great Britain Education System Looks to Beef Up Computer Science Curriculum

Computer science curriculum is making its way into the education system in Great Britain. The Royal Society labeled current offerings as “highly unsatisfactory.” According to these professionals, the education system is suffering from a shortage of teachers able to teach beyond basic digital literacy. They also pointed fingers at the lack of demand from high level educational institutions.