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.

Webinar Series: Taxonomies for Publishing

By |December 6th, 2011|Access Insights, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Webinar Series: Taxonomies for Publishing

Continuing with the SLA Taxonomy Division’s webinar series, the next webinar is titled “Taxonomies for Publishing: Enhancing the User Experience” and will be held Wednesday, December 14th at 1:00 p.m. EST (10:00 a.m. PST).

Distractions Can Cost Healthcare Organizations

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There are a lot of transitions in healthcare right now. Reform, technology and of course, the transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 rank in the top things distracting healthcare organizations these days.

What is SharePoint Lacking?

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Microsoft has long been the provider of all things uniform and default in the technology world. Mac users have forever been screaming foul with few people listening to their frustrations. When it comes to content management systems, is SharePoint still the best practice model other systems should compare themselves to?

Use Cases for Semantic Enrichment Using Taxonomies – Part II of VI

By |December 5th, 2011|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Use Cases for Semantic Enrichment Using Taxonomies – Part II of VI

Last week, we started discussing semantic integration. We did a brief introduction and now that the basics are settled let us look at ways to enrich the user experience using Semantics (the words from our taxonomies). We have a way to improve search. It is a search option driven by taxonomies that you can play with.

The Pressure is On

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With two deadlines looming, can healthcare organizations be fully prepared? The Office for Civil Rights is randomly auditing for HIPAA compliance and this will continue through December 31, 2012. Right behind that is the October 2013 deadline for ICD-10 implementation. A recent survey showed most healthcare organizations charged with HIPAA compliance are not fully prepared for a privacy and security audit by federal regulators.

MongoGraph Embraces Semantic Web Features

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MongoGraph is bringing semantic web features to MongoDB developers by implementing a MongoDB interface to AllegroGraph database to give Javascript programmers both the semantic web capabilities.

Multi-Dimensional Search Technology Released

By |December 2nd, 2011|News, search|Comments Off on Multi-Dimensional Search Technology Released

Q-Sensei has released an application programming interface (API) to embed its multi-dimensional search technology in any website or application. Search technologies have failed to produce comprehensive search results with ease. Q-Sensei’s new search multi-dimensional search analyzes the results and presents them in a comprehensive, organized index.

ASME Partnering with Silverchair

By |December 2nd, 2011|News, semantic|Comments Off on ASME Partnering with Silverchair

ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) will partner with Silverchair Information Systems (Silverchair) to host the ASME Digital Library on its SCM6 platform.

Webinars Featuring XBRL Experts

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PR Newswire brought this information to our attention in their article, “XBRL Challenge Webinar Series to Feature XBRL Data Management (12/8/11) and Investor Analysis (12/16/11).”

BCBSNC Seeks Help for the ICD 10 Transition

By |December 1st, 2011|Autoindexing, News|Comments Off on BCBSNC Seeks Help for the ICD 10 Transition

Edifecs was chosen by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) to help them achieve compliance with the upcoming ICD-10 transition. They achieve this by enabling health plans index and analyze their own historic data.