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.

Knowledge Organization Requires Standards

By |December 27th, 2011|News, ontology, Standards|Comments Off on Knowledge Organization Requires Standards

There is much automation in the medical world, both in treatment and billing. One of those that were hardest for physicians to accept was clinical pathways. A clinical pathway is a common medical treatment for a disease and care developed by one of the most appropriate care plans. These are used as management models in an effort to improve health care quality and to control medical costs. Standardized electronic clinical pathways use ontologies as shared conceptual models or knowledge organization.

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Social Media and Security – Not Always Enemies

By |December 27th, 2011|News|Comments Off on Social Media and Security – Not Always Enemies

Recently at the Le Web – an Internet event in Europe, Google guru, Eric Schmidt spoke about the future being social, local and mobile. What does this mean? More Facebook? More smartphone apps? More Foursquare?

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New Agreement Shares Content from Who’s Who

By |December 27th, 2011|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on New Agreement Shares Content from Who’s Who

EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) will soon contain content from Marquis Who’s Who. The new agreement will add metadata from the Marquis Who’s Who database into the Base Index of EDS and provide seamless access and full text searching for mutual customers.

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Data Visualization and Term Analytics – Part V of VI

By |December 26th, 2011|Access Insights, Featured, semantic, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Data Visualization and Term Analytics – Part V of VI

A completely different kind of use is term analytics. We have talked a lot of text analytics in the past, where people take great big full text files and they run them through a lot of Bayesian, neural net, and latent semantic indexing kind of engines to figure out how to compare things. You could do that using a taxonomy instead and still figure out the strengths of the organization; what are the strengths in the publications; what are the emerging topics in your areas. You use people’s own data to address these questions and figure out the answers.

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More Deadlines for ICD-10 Transition

By |December 26th, 2011|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on More Deadlines for ICD-10 Transition

ICD-9 has been the system used for almost 40 years. Coming in October 2013, things will change. The new ICD-10 coding classification system will be in effect with five times the amount of medical codes for healthcare providers to use and diagnosis codes with more digits. Before the billing systems can accommodate the expanded field length for diagnoses, a new format system for electronic billing needs to take place first. This is scheduled to happen in just a few days on January 1, 2012.

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Fashion Indexed

By |December 26th, 2011|indexing, News|Comments Off on Fashion Indexed

Vogue magazine has now opened up its digital archives to researchers. The 120 years of fashion history has been scanned from paper and turned into a digital data mine, completely indexed.

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ICD-10 Transition Requires Collaboration

By |December 23rd, 2011|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on ICD-10 Transition Requires Collaboration

The impending ICD-10 transition requires a large scope of work. Organizations that have begun implementing their ICD-10 readiness strategy realize this, others who are farther behind in the process are quickly understanding the challenge that awaits them. One thing is for sure, when it comes to ICD-10, a team effort is required.

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Communications Panel Looking At The Future

By |December 23rd, 2011|News, semantic, Technology|Comments Off on Communications Panel Looking At The Future

We’ve talked numerous times about how technology has changed the way we communicate and interact both in our professional and personal lives. So what does the future look like? How will this same technology evolve and what will be the results of that progress on our lives? The Media Communications panel at the 3rd edition of the World Forum in Davos, Switzerland, “Communication on Top”, will be addressing those questions and more.

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Market Research Company Sees Benefit of Social Media

By |December 23rd, 2011|News|Comments Off on Market Research Company Sees Benefit of Social Media

Dialego has launched a new social media division. This German research agency recognized that social media market research is a huge and important part of market research. Leading this new division is Annette Stucken from Unilever.

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Millenium HealthCare Adds to Their Professional Arsenal

By |December 22nd, 2011|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on Millenium HealthCare Adds to Their Professional Arsenal

Millennium HealthCare has appointed Marc Sherman, MD to the Company Advisory Board. Dr. Sherman has an impressive resume including his current position as the Medical Director of Heartbeat Medical PC, one of the largest cardiology groups in the New York area.

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