It seems more and more local governments are digitizing old census records lately. The genealogy hobby has grown exponentially with the unlimited access the Internet provides so it appears that historical societies, libraries and city halls are responding to the increase in requests.
The Florida International University library has acquired the Enrique Hurtado de Mendoza collection and is in the process of digitizing the collection to be made available through the library's website.
A new and powerful tool is headed our way. I believe it has the potential to change the way we interact with researchers, contributors and authors in general. I have already reported on the Contributor ID meeting in Boston mid-May. One of the main reasons for the timing of that meeting was the ORCID Outreach meeting to be held at the Microsoft office next to MIT in Cambridge. The aim of ORCID is to "solve the name ambiguity problem in scholarly communications by creating a registry of persistent unique identifiers for individual researchers and an open and transparent linking mechanism between ORCID, other ID schemes, and research objects such as publications, grants, and patents."
The Center for Health and Human Services recently announced the new deadline for the ICD-10 coding classification transition was being postponed to October 1, 2014. Healthcare providers are struggling to meet the requirements without breaking the bank. It is easy to see the dollars and more dollars and more dollars being spent (sorry I derailed), but the return on investment is much more ambiguous.
So what is this thing called ICD-10 and why is it impacting so many people? ICD-10, an international disease coding system, is mandated for adoption in the U.S. by Oct. 1, 2014. At least that is the current deadline. There have many been key players in this arena speak out against a different, usually farther out, deadline. The current and soon-to-be outdated ICD-9 disease coding system is made up of only 1/5 the number of disease codes the new ICD-10 contains. This huge change will impact many avenues of the healthcare system.
Basho Technologies has made available the second edition of Riak Handbook. This version includes more than 43 pages of new content covering many of the latest feature enhancements to the open-source database, Riak.
Information Management (HIM) technology and service has received the highest scores for provider perception that its precyseCode(TM) computer assisted coding (CAC) solution will meet their needs. Precyse was recognized for their strong technology in comparison to competing vendors. With ICD-10 looming on the horizon on some unforeseen date, the difference between ICD-9 and ICD-10 can be daunting and foreign to those attempting to prepare for the transition. At its core, the difference is five times the number of codes.
The American Medical Association has stated their preference of the ICD-10 implementation date being delayed to Oct. 1, 2015. This was in response to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services decision to postpone the original ICD-10 coding classification transition from October 1, 2013 to October 1, 2014. In fact, they also stated that if stakeholders cannot reach consensus on this matter during this two-year delay period, then the move to ICD-10 should be postponed indefinitely.
The Federation of American Hospitals (FAH) has chimed in on the debate over the delay of the ICD-10 implementation, and they believe the one-year delay will be beneficial. The federation also believes that all segments of the healthcare industry should transition to ICD-10 at the same time.
China is fast becoming a global leader in scientific publishing and scientific research. Papers with authors from China now represent 6.6 % of the 3,425 papers published in Nature journals in 2011. This is up from 5.3 percent in 2010.