Posts by Melody Smith
SharePoint Gives Findability
Access to information is something we take for granted more and more every day. The Internet has changed our ability to find information and locate data, close or remote. Smart phones have taken that availability to unimagined realms. In the corporate world, there are still two groups – those who have findability of their data and those who do not.
Read MoreNew Year’s Resolution Fallout
The typical resolutions people make revolve around health, dieting, lifestyles and learning. Ironically, the same could be said for data management and integration, if they were in a position to set new goals for 2012.
Read MoreHitachi Looks to the Clouds
Hitachi Data Systems has aligned their product and portfolio around a three-tiered strategy that focuses on the cloud. This consists of infrastructure cloud, content cloud and information cloud to provide a single virtualization platform for all data.
Read MoreOnline Training Offered for ICD-10 Transition
HCPro, Inc. will be bringing together leading industry experts on coding and ICD-10 for three days of presentations and discussion, from February 29-March 2nd, 2012. The JustCoding Virtual Summit: ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS is an online event and features two educational tracks: one for HIM Directors and Coding Supervisors, and one for Inpatient and Outpatient Coders.
Read MoreUniversity Embraces New Search Engine Technology
North Illinois University Libraries have launched a new search service this semester. Primo incorporates the advanced developments in search engine technology that seeks to provide an easier and more intuitive process for locating academic literature.
Read MoreData Analysis Competition Announces Winners
The second Digging into Data Challenge competition announced the winners who promoted innovative humanities and social science research using large-scale data analysis. Fourteen teams representing Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States were the recipients of grants to investigate how computational techniques can be applied to “big data” to change the nature of humanities and social sciences research.
Read MoreEighth Annual Data Harmony Users Group – February 7-9, 2012
Access Innovations will host the the eighth annual Data Harmony® Users Group (DHUG) meeting this coming February 7-9 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The meeting will focus on helping users get the most from their investment in the Data Harmony knowledge management software suite, which helps users organize information resources based on a well-built and systematically applied taxonomy or thesaurus.
Read MoreThe Perfect Storm
One blogger compared the impending ICD-10 coding classification transition to the movie, The Perfect Storm. As challenging as the process is, I don’t know that it will be as tragic and dramatic as that. It will, however, be one of the most important milestones in healthcare technology.
Read MoreSmartLogic Releases Semaphore 3.3
Smartlogic has released their latest version of Semaphore. Version 3.3 offers enhanced enterprise search and organize enterprise metadata as they provide the capability for integration with SharePoint 2010.
Read MoreThe Beauty of the Web
There are still some people out there who think the Internet is just a fad and will go by the way of 8-track tapes and bomb shelters. The number of these skeptics is decreasing, but I can say (proudly or not) that I know and am related to one in particular. My sister, the teacher, believes technology is causing the demise of our children and their education. Now, I won’t go that far. She is on the verge of creating her own version of “The Village.”
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