Managing Healthcare Data Has Its Challenges
Certify Data Systems has released its next generation HealthLogix HIE platform. This solution delivers on the promise of an aggregated patient view from all healthcare encounters across the community.
Social Media Data Continues to Grow
Sysomos is known for their social media monitoring and analytics. Now they can brag about reaching an important milestone – the indexing of 100,000,000,000 (one […]
It Is Like Herding Cats
The web is full of unstructured data. There may be a few segments falling in line with semantic standards, but they are few and far between. The focus of search engines is on HTML but that leaves much of the data undiscovered.
The End Result Will Help
Sometimes with all the anxiety and business around the ICD-10 coding classification transition, we forget that this will undoubtedly result in better insight into individual patient conditions and the wealth of data that will be available will improve the efficiency of healthcare delivery.
Photo Storage and Indexing Need Taxonomy
A new cloud-based photo sharing service has been launched by Canon. Project 1709 enables users to store and access images regardless of where they have been saved. This works due to a special tagging and indexing function.
Training is Key for a Successful Transition
Now that there is a firm deadline in place, it is time to start training to meet the October 2014 coding classification transition goal. Considering there will be five times the number of diagnostic codes, the training should be comprehensive and complete.
Why Do We Index?
We index, or “tag”, using the taxonomy to improve precision. In part, we are doing that by defining the scope of the term that we use. So, we have a term that represents a concept but that term might be used for several concepts. We are defining in which way we are using the term ‘mercury’ within this corpus of information. We define the scope of the term, and that improves the precision.
Understanding the ICD-10 Risks
The ICD-10 coding classification conversion deadline has been set, again. Now it is time for healthcare providers to determine their game plan. During this year’s AHIMA conference in Chicago on September 30 – October 3 vendors will be on hand to help.
Countdown to Transition Creates Anxiety
The continued angst around ICD-10 coding classification transition surfaced in the monthly blog series, "ICD-10 in Real Time." The many changes in healthcare happening at almost the same time is creating a very unique, one of a kind, perfect storm in the lives of healthcare providers.
Findability Sought with Indexing
Actuate has released their document indexing, storage, and multi-channel delivery system, Xenos Repository. Content has changed. It has become comprehensive and varied right along with the technology that created it. Actuate Xenos Group technology seeks to address that complexity with business intelligence driven solutions.