Things move very quickly in technology and computing these days. The overwhelming amount of information that is now available is incomprehensible, and it’s certainly a quagmire that is building faster than there are the tools to manage. At least that was the case.
Need a reason to go to Italy? Okay, need a good reason? The Second International Workshop on Ontologies meet Advanced Information Systems (OAIS) will be held September 1-4, 2013 in Genoa, Italy.
A business glossary is a software application used to communicate and govern the organization’s business concepts and terminology, along with the associated definitions and relationships between those terms. A core objective of a business glossary is to minimize the confusion of business terminology and communications.
Siri is fun to play with - ask her what the meaning of life is sometime - but I am still not sure she offers real, usable information that a quick internet search wouldn't give me, and I wouldn't have to repeat three times. However, people like Tim Berners-Lee dream of a time when you could ask inocuious questions like where to take your spouse for dinner and receive a response based on natural language processing and what I call insight. Insight into the food preferences of both you and your spouse, restaurants nearby and their table availability. The latter two are not as difficult, but insight would be an achievement that most men would like to possess on their own.
TEMIS has completed a conclusive series of tests of its flagship Luxid® Content Enrichment Platform on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Azure. This is a signficant step towards customer application deployments on Microsoft's cloud infrastructure.
H.I.M. ON CALL has made available their dual coding services for hospitals migrating to ICD-10 coding classification system. Dual Coding is part of the process to end-to-end testing for ICD-10.
Organizations that help manage and analyze medical content have a unique opportunity during this time of ICD-10 transition. Healthcare entities are recognizing the need for sharing clinical data. This trend has been accelerated by the transition. This interesting information was found on Reuters in their article, “Wolters Kluwer Health to Acquire Health Language, Inc., a Leader in the Medical Terminology Management Market.”
Natural language user interfaces are becoming more and more popular. Creations like Siri promise to improve every facet of our lives from emergency situations to shopping. The semantic web has birthed this phenomonaly successful technology. Through the use of standardized tags and formats, the semantic web builds a framework where content on the web has machine-understandable meaning. This takes it many steps past simply being searchable by keyword.
Moving part or all of an organization's resources into the cloud is a step that should not be taken lightly. There is much to consider and reconsider as your business needs change. Governance is about taking action to help your organization optimize and manage your systems and resources to meet your business goals.
The U.S. Supreme Court has supported consumer rights and libraries in the high-profile Kirtsaeng v. Wiley & Sons, Inc. case by ruling that goods lawfully made overseas are protected by the first sale doctrine. This particular case focused on whether Americans and businesses had the right to sell, lend, or give away the things they own that were made overseas.