Posts by Melody Smith
Path to Innovation
What is innovation management? It is similar to content management or content sharing. Maybe it should be called content liberation software since sharing knowledge is the acceptable behavior. How should a company approach innovation since it rarely just happens?
Read MoreBeat the Clock
Two years out from the deadline, less than 10 percent of healthcare providers are more than halfway ready for the ICD-10 implementation. The deadline for the conversion is Oct. 1, 2013.
Read MoreAccess Innovations Receives U.S. Patent for Unique MAIChem™ Software Search Method
Software Provides Fast, In-Depth, Broad and Consistently Accurate Searches of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry Data
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 MoreNew Partnership Focusing on Semantic Enrichment
HighWire Press has entered into a strategic partnershp with TEMIS. HighWire will integrate the full suite of Luxid® software within its ePublishing Platform to provide automated content annotation, enrichment and linking to its customers.
Read MoreLong Established Ancestry Site Opens Doors to Non-Members
The Church of the Latter-day Saints have long been the front runners in ancestry and family history. They were knee-deep in files before the average user ever heard of things like Ancestry.com. Now having more than 4,400 Family History Centers, they are opening the doors to Mormon members and non-members who are interested in finding…
Read MoreThe Big C’s
Combing content, commerce and community can be a trifecta of problems. Making two of these work well together is a challenge, three is, well, hard. The problem is that content, commerce and community are generally managed in different systems.
Read MoreUsing Technology for Food Sustainability
Food+Tech Connect is highlighting 5 innovative ways technology is being used to improve access to fresh, local food. Among the selection of online marketplaces and management tools are examples of how user centered design, visualizing impact, and crowdsourcing techniques are being successfully used to help small producers distribute and market their products.
Read MoreFrom the Office to Your Pocket?
Accusoft Pegasus releases Barcode Xpress Mobile for Android™. Barcode Xpress will provide patient record indexing in apps built for medical professionals, allowing instant accessibility to patient medical information.
Read MoreICD-10 is Coming Our Way! Hooray! Hooray!
With all the talk of and worry about the impending shift to ICD-10 medical coding classifications in 2013, some people are looking for outlets in humor. This interesting and amusing topic was found on Government Health IT in their article, “What Dr. Seuss might have said about ICD-10.”
Read MoreCompliance Challenges and Semantic Solutions
One of the common challenges for data and tool integration is how complex biological data can be due to its inter-connectivity. With no standards or processes widely adopted, this left little hope for improvement in the situation. However, recent attempts have focused on the use of semantics to assist integration, and Semantic Web technologies are being welcomed by this community.
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