Posts by Melody Smith
The Need for Training
IOD Incorporated has launched the IOD Learning Institute (ILI), an education platform that includes online learning, classroom led education and personalized one-on-one learning. This comes about in preparation for the ICD-10 transition.
Read MoreOne Size Fits All Taxonomies
A constant challenge for any content manager is the training to apply the right tags and metadata. We all know how important leaving these breadcrumbs can be to operating a comprehensive search. It is like filing something away in a blank folder with no idea of what it is and no way to find it. The DataFacet solution from WAND Inc provides sets of extensive taxonomies, and tools to automate the classification of documents and web content.
Read MoreSemantic Search Technology Leader Adds V.P.s
A leader in semantic search technology and innovation intelligence software has beefed up their management team. Invention Machine has appointed four senior executives to the company’s management team as a strategic growth move.
Read MoreSpreadsheets Being Replaced by Taxonomies
Taxonomy management tools have come a long way in tackling content organization challenges. However there seems to be no consistency in the tools and their approach. This is key as corporate requirements for search and content management have changed and grown for tools that help organizations create, administer, and publish semantic structures.
Read MoreThe Need for a Taxonomy
Many sophisticated semantic search tools build ontologies and taxonomies to organize the data. David Patterson, the co-founder and CEO of Sophia Search, doesn’t think this is necessary and seeks freedom from taxonomies or ontologies.
Read MoreICD-10 Creates Need for New Disease Taxonomy
The National Research Council released a report earlier this month that highlights the need for new systems to incorporate the health and disease-related information that continues to amass at an amazing rate, into a single resource that can help improve health outcomes.
Read MoreTaxonomy and Its Many Uses
Taxonomies are not limited to scientific or biomedical data. They may be used more often for that type of data, but online retailer Plumbworld, is one of the outliers. This provider of bathroom fixtures and shower enclosures used the idea of launching new sites based on the products they already sell and their success came…
Read MoreSemantic Search in Ontologies
One of the important components of many bioinformatic algorithms are semantic similarity searches in ontologies. There are, unfortunately, no algorithms for computing the exact distribution of semantic similarity scores.
Read MoreAccess Innovations Receives U.S. Patent for Unique MAIChem™ Software Search Method
Access Innovations, Inc., a leader in data integrity and content creation, has announced it has been awarded a U.S. Patent No. 8,046,212 for MAIChem™, a software-based method for searching chemical names in one or more text-containing documents that have been loaded into computer memory.
Read MoreICD-10 Trumps the Y2K Anxiety
We all know that behind the scenes in the health care industry many people are working towards one of the biggest changes to information systems in years. That is of course, the transition to the new ICD-10 medical coding classification system. For some, this is a business opportunity that could create growth and revenue.
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