Posts by Melody Smith
The Financial Implications of Poor Planning
The October 1, 2013 deadline for ICD-10 coding classification transition could mean zero payments for some healthcare providers. The transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 results in five times the number of procedures codes. Therefore, poor planning and training could affect the financials.
Read MoreWhat Will 2012 Bring?
Eval-Source has compiled a list of 12 technology trends and predictions that they believe will come to realization this year. They based these on what they see with their customers and their concerns.
Read MorePreparing for the Financial Impact of ICD-10
No one is oblivious (or shouldn’t be) to the impact that the ICD-10 implementation will have on budgets. Training, software and process delay (especially for smaller facilities) could potentially cause some real and lasting financial problems.
Read MoreSmart Content Framework Announced
Concept Searching announces formation of the Smart Content Framework, a toolset that provides an enterprise framework to mitigate risk, manage information and address compliancy. This player in semantic metadata generation, auto-classification, and taxonomy management software claims the framework has proven to be a flexible solution to address recurring problems in organizations of any size or in any industry.
Read MoreAHIMA Supports the Transition to ICD-10
The American Health Information Management Association is urging the health care industry to continue working toward implementation of the ICD-10 coding system. This is a contrast to the American Medical Association’s efforts to block the coding change.
Read MoreSemantic Technology Used for Recruiting
Preptel Corporation has made their official launch announcing their intent to provide optimization services for recruiters to improve a candidate’s chances of getting an interview and securing an offer.
Read MorePublishing Metadata Becomes More Valuable
Bowker has been selected by book retailer Books-A-Million to supply metadata related to the print, e- and audio books. Bowker metadata will be used to feed both internal and external systems supporting the firm’s purchasing needs and providing bibliographic and identifier information in stores and on the website.
Read MoreLeveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 3
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 talking about search software and today we will continue with that topic. I believe in the data first as you know. Staring in the diagram with your Source Data you can see how the data flows. You need to clean the source data to a uniform format. This is often called the conversion process or the ETL – Extract Transform and Load.
Read MoreUnderstanding Linked Data
Sometimes when you work in an industry or are affiliated with it, you start throwing around terminology and acronyms that not everyone may completely understand. I hope we don’t practice this behavior here at TaxoDiary on a regular basis, but I fear it may have happened on occasion.
Read MoreIndustry Meeting on Search in Nice
There is a meeting coming up soon in Nice that might be worth your consideration. Granted, any meeting in Nice would be worth my consideration, but this one offers more than a great location. This is an international forum for those in the field of advanced search applications, data and text mining, and visualization technology. The primary focus of this meeting is on tools for intelligence and the meeting examines the requirements of specialists in scientific and technical information
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