Access Insights
Hilariously Weird ICD-10 Codes
ICD-10 codes are used for medical billing purposes all over the world. If you limp into a healthcare facility with a broken ankle, there’s a code for that. If you catch the flu, there’s a code for that, too. Most of these codes are pretty standard fare for the medical field, and cover a wide…
Read MoreMark Your Calendars Now
With February falling past the half point, April is not that far away. So make your plans now for the 20th annual Enterprise Data World (EDW) Conference . This conference is recognized as the most comprehensive educational conference on data management in the world. The event is scheduled for Sunday, April 17, 2016 – Friday, April 22, 2016…
Read MoreData Harmony Users Group in the Rear View Mirror
The 12th annual Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) has come and gone. Twenty-five attendees joined the Access Innovations staff last week to hear case studies presented by users and presentations by Access Innovations and Data Harmony staff. The agenda was well planned with diverse approaches to managing data and being responsive to the unique needs…
Read MoreTurning the Bad Into Good
Cindy Acton from Cargill shared with the attendees of Data Harmony Users Group (#DHUG2016) how her organization uses Data Harmony to help their research and development team index and access technical reports. Cargill’s thesaurus contains over 9,000 terms and about 500 top level terms into a streamlined tool used by their researchers to find the…
Read MoreTaxonomies That Work
Ian Matzen from America’s Test Kitchen – home of the well known television show and foodie paradise – spoke to the Data Harmony Users Group (#DHUG2016) about their experience working with Access Innovations on consultation and refinement of their thesaurus. America’s Test Kitchen is a real 2,500 square foot test kitchen located just outside of Boston that…
Read MoreThe Sky is Falling
Day two of Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) was kicked off with Dr. Moriba Jah from the University of Arizona and Director, Space Object Behavioral Sciences at the Air Force Research Laboratory. Dr. Jah started the session by talking trash. As an astrodynamicist with expertise in quantifying, assessing, and predicting the behavior of objects in…
Read MoreVisualizing Your Data
Data visualization is the presentation of data in a pictorial or graphical format. It enables decision makers to see analytics presented visually, so they can grasp difficult concepts or identify new patterns. Visualizing complex data can be a challenge but also offers unique opportunities to direct perception without drowning in spreadsheets, numbers and queries. At…
Read MoredataCloud, LLC and Access Innovations, Inc. Launch Semantics-Based Big Data Solution
dataCloud, LLC and Access Innovations, Inc. have teamed up to create Topic Seeker™, a semantics-based solution for big data. Topic Seeker analyzes text-based content and organizes it by topic, allowing publishers and other organizations to see changing trends in their respective fields, develop conference tracks based on current topic relevance, and many other applications. “Analytics…
Read More12th Annual Data Harmony Users Group – This Week!
The 2016 Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) meeting begins this week. It is both an exciting and busy time of the year here at Access Innovations and the 2016 gathering is going to be the best year yet. As usual, DHUG will bring our fantastic users together in one place for a few days of…
Read MoreGroundhog Day: Names and Recursions
I’m sure you’re all just like me and waiting anxiously to hear the results from Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, whence this very day we will find out from Punxsy Phil whether spring will come early this year or we have to wait six more weeks (pro tip: In the Northern Hemisphere, it’s always going to fall on…
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