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Technology Changes Physician’s Roles
I am sure most physicians didn’t decide to go to medical school because they liked technology. Granted and especially recently, younger medical students are entering the field already assimilated to using technology in every aspect of their life so applying it in their daily professional life is no stretch. However, with the many advances in semantic technology and now the shift to ICD 10 coding, which will require more specific coding for reimbursements, physicians can no longer hide in the clinic and let the office manager fend for their selves.
Read MoreIndexing Your Cookbooks
Though it may seem trivial in comparison to indexing millions of books in libraries, hundreds of thousands documents for publishers, and the endless financial data being indexed continuously, a new technology is indexing personal cookbook libraries for ease in searching for a specific recipe, ingredient or theme.
Read MoreThe Case for Taxonomy
Search, social computing and metadata taxonomy all work to help your users find content as fast as possible and with ease. But this doesn’t just happen; it takes time and effort to make any enterprise content management system successful. This seems to be a problem for leadership to understand when it comes to dedicating time and resources. Unfortunately, the end costs could be far greater if they don’t plan appropriately.
Read MoreNational Agriculture Library Selects TEMIS for Auto-Indexing
TEMIS was awarded the contract by the National Agricultural Library (NAL) to automatically index hundreds of thousands of documents annually. NAL has acquired via TEMIS an automated indexing software that expands their indexing potential.
Read MoreMetadata Standards Rejected
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has rejected the idea of metadata standards. Saying they believe more work needs to be done to verify the standards before they are implemented, they practically scolded the Department of Health and Human Services over their plans to include metadata standards in Meaningful Use Stage 2.
Read MoreIndexing the Social Health Web
Treato is a new source of medical information based on real life experiences of patients published over the social web. This new semantic-based technology was unveiled at the Health2.0 conference.
Read MoreIU Health Preparing for Transition
To prepare for the ICD-10 and ANSI 5010 regulations, Indiana University Health (IU Health) Bloomington and Paoli Hospital are looking to McKesson’s Horizon Patient Folder electronic documentation management system to make the transition.
Read MoreMarkLogic Chosen by The Press Association
With data being created much faster than it can be indexed or archived, big data is overwhelming many organizations, most especially news organizations. MarkLogic Corporation has announced that the Press Association (PA), the UK’s leading multimedia news agency and information provider, has selected MarkLogic as the central content store, metadata repository, and syndication engine for all of its unstructured information.
Read MoreICD-10 Conversion Deadline Looming
With right at a year left on the deadline, 85% of respondents to a recent American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) survey indicated they had begun work on ICD-10 planning and implementation. This is up from 62% reported a year ago and 55% from a similar survey done in April 2010.
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.
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