Melody Smith

New Partnership Enhances Coding Services and Ultimately Profitability

By Melody Smith | February 7, 2012

Health Endeavors has entered into a strategic partnership with Aviacode, a medical coding and compliance service. Health Endeavors offers a web-based compliance and management software portal that provides coding and clinical documentation audits, as well as answers coding questions and recommendations for reducing risk. This new partnership will add value by shortening the revenue cycle and increasing the efficiency for providers.

New Merger Benefits EBSCO

By Melody Smith | February 7, 2012

EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) maybe in the perfect spot to benefit from the formal merging of EBSCO A-to-Z® and LinkSource® into EBSCO’s overall discovery solution.

Semaphore 3.3 Released

By Melody Smith | February 7, 2012

Smartlogic has released a new version of Semaphore, which offers additional features for enterprise search.

Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 1

By Melody Smith | February 6, 2012

This series of blog posts will explore how search works. We need to have a basic understanding of search fundamentals in order to know where taxonomies come in.

Risk of Coding Errors Just Grew Five Times

By Melody Smith | February 6, 2012

If you are remotely connected to the healthcare field, the term ICD-10 is not a foreign one. Front office, back office, provider, biller – whatever role you play, you know about the transition to the ICD-10 coding classification. This upgrade is massive on any scale and the shift will bump the number of codes used to classify illness for reimbursement will multiply times five.

Digital Asset Conference This Month

By Melody Smith | February 6, 2012

The digital asset management community will be gathering in Beverly Hills in a couple weeks at Createasphere’s Digital Asset Management (DAM) Conference. The event will encompass a variety of topics including the escalating challenges of production workflow, content protection, transmedia, disaster recovery, semantics, metadata, taxonomy, and more. Their services and this event are targeted towards an equal variety of fields including advertising, broadcasting, entertainment, new media, publishing, and non-profits.

The What and Why of Taxonomies

By Melody Smith | February 3, 2012

Stellar taxonomy management and the benefits it brings to the table was the topic of conversation at the recent KMWorld Taxonomy Bootcamp event in Washington D.C. Making searches simple and improving findability was the goal.

User-Friendly Terminology Can Help Reduce the Impact of ICD-10

By Melody Smith | February 2, 2012

Health Language, Inc. has launched a new version of its terminology to include clinician friendly synonyms and more than 100,000 attributes for ICD-10-CM.

Semantic Technology Linking Data

By Melody Smith | February 1, 2012

Linking data sets via semantic technology is becoming more and more popular in the biomedical and finance industries. This can be credited in part to the Enterprise Data Management Council.