Posts by Melody Smith
From Paper To Digital
Reading anything on digital devices has many physical, behavioral, and psychological limitations as well as advantages. At the very least, eye fatigue sets in even before the battery warning light starts scolding you. A digital summer read at the beach becomes fraught with hazards as sand starts creeping into your iPad and the glare has given you a crushing headache. Will your pursuit of a great vacation read drive you indoors? Under the porch? Into the deep woods? Will you become a pasty white, reclusive figure forever lurking in the darker recesses of society in search of shadowy environs so you can catch, glare free, that illusive, perfectly crafted phrase? Digital readers are getting better at handling varied lighting conditions, but there are still challenges.
Read MoreNew Alliance Continues Use of Semantic Technology in Healthcare
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and Nuance Communications have announced a new collaboration. As makers of Dragon Medical Enterprise, Nuance’s new affiliation will offer several advantages, including more effective use of the EMR by physicians, cost savings, and the use of natural language processing will improve clinical decision-making.
Read MoreDocuXplorer Releases Upgrade
DocuXplorer has released a new, even more powerful version of DocuXplorer. Of the seventeen new features and four enhancements included, the most noticeable new feature is a dramatically improved OCR functionality. Users are now able to segregate a zone or multiple zones for automated index set population.
Read MoreGreen Semantics & Ethical Shopping
Technology continues to evolve and grow at a rampant pace. In the not so distant future, the technology will exist that allows us to scan our purchases with our smart phone and learn not only the nutritional information, but information on the “fairness” of the food. It is The Jetsons meet Michael Pollan.
Read MoreSharePoint 2010 Can Produce Results
You probably aren’t a stranger to SharePoint 2010, a popular tool for creating Intranets, customer portals and almost any web-based solution. It is a popular and powerful product. We found some useful tips if you are considering deploying SharePoint 2010 for your business solutions. CMSWire brought this topic to our attention in their article, “The…
Read MoreVirtual Shopping Assistant Using Semantic Technology
iSOCO has integrated all the research on semantic technology and natural language processing of the last ten years into a convenient shopping experience with a virtual shop assistant.
Read MoreBeyond Search Shares the Latest Access Innovations News
Stephen E. Arnold, guru over at Arnold IT noted for his critical view of search and content processing technology, accentuates the positives in his discussion of Access Innovations’ push into medical coding.
Read MoreBig Data – What’s In It For Me?
There has been a lot of talk lately about big data and it can be confusing because everyone’s definition of big data differs. No one is comparing apples to apples or oranges to oranges. How do you define big data?
Read MoreWhat The Future Holds
Only twenty or already twenty years ago – depending on how you look at it – the world wide web was christened. No, not by Al Gore, but by a British computer scientist, Tim Berners-Lee.
Read MoreAccess Innovations, Inc. Announces the Access Innovations Health Integrity Initiative (AI³)
Access Innovations, Inc., a leader in data integrity and content creation, has announced the Access Innovations Integrity Initiative (AI³), a suite of tools and
services for quality assurance and validation of medical coding.