Posts by Melody Smith
Project Underway to Create Metadata Framework For Tagging Resources
The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI) is a project to create a common vocabulary for describing learning resources on the Internet. The technical working group has been formed and includes representatives from experts in the fields of education, publishing, and metadata. Their goal is to create a metadata framework for tagging resources that is can be easily implemented, but rich enough to assign valuable attributes to educational content to make searching and filtering easier.
Read MoreOverpaying/Underpaying – It Always Costs
The Office of Inspector General has estimated that Medicare contractors nationwide overpaid physicians roughly $28.8 million combined in 2008 and 2009 for incorrectly coded services. This news makes it a little easier to understand the need for a new medical coding system.
Read MoreDigital Book Library Might Be In Our Future
Amazon is apparently in talks to launch a digital-books library run on the same premise as Netflix. For an annual fee, readers can read themselves silly on e-books of their choosing. There are no details available as to how advanced this process has moved, but it does make us wonder about the impact on brick and mortar libraries.
Read MoreNew Management Team at Sprylogics
Sprylogics has a new Chief Executive Officer after Michael Frank stepped down as Chief Executive Officer and Director of the Company in order to pursue other interests. Marvin Igelman has accepted the role. Two additional members have been added to the management team – Brad Marks and Bhavuk Kaul have joined as the VP of Product Development and VP of Product Marketing, respectively.
Read MoreNatural Language Processing Only Goes So Far
The sirens call of natural language processing has been issued again. In this study, the researchers compared the use for free text searches to administrative codes to see which would give better indication of safety based on 20 indicators. The authors rightly suggest that instead of relying only on the notoriously poor check boxes used with discharge orders that the hand written notes form the discharge nurse or physician might be much more instructive.
Read MoreFinancial Impact of ICD 10 Implementation
Quite possibly, the transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 represents one of the most wide-ranging impacts to a healthcare provider’s business. Everything they do will change in some form or fashion. What will take the biggest hit is probably their revenue. PR Web brought this information to our attention in their article, “The Impact of ICD-10…
Read MoreTraveling Semantically
We often talk about how semantic technology has changed the IT world, the search world, and even the healthcare world, but how has it affected the retail world of travel? The product of travel is about price, time and place; not much different than buying seasonal produce. Shopping the experience means using customer benefits, words, and concepts to wrap the travel product in advance – to anticipate customer needs.
Read MoreHybrid Cloud Computing Becoming More and More in Demand
IBM South Africa has announced new cloud solutions to help clients drive efficient and scalable computing services. It seems an increasing number of organizations are attempting to leverage the scale and flexibility of public cloud, but don’t want to lose control of resources that exist outside their brick and mortar facility. Enter the hybrid or shared services cloud model.
Read MoreApache Lucene 3.4.0 Released
No one will argue that search is a very important part of any enterprise content management system. Findability is key. What is the point of having quality content if no one can find it?
Read MoreStandards for the Clouds
The UK government’s national Cloud Computing strategy is soon to be published and many wonder what the decision on industry-wide standards will be. Rumors are they will not be developing new, but adapting to current ones available.
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