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Another Dog in the Fight
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has gone on record approving the postponement of the ICD 10 transition until 2014.
Read MoreOpenText Recognized by Forrester Wave
The Forrester Wave report classified OpenText and Autonomy as leaders for their strong, enterprise-class solutions.
Read MoreHealthline’s Consumer Engagement Platform Released
Healthline Networks has released their Healthline Consumer Engagement Platform. This suite of technology and content services offers rich personalization capabilities.
Read MoreThe Confusion Continues
The concerns over the deadline of the ICD-10 coding classification transition switched over to concerns over the delay of the deadline in the past few months. This left many healthcare organizations in flux. Now the American Medical Association (AMA) says it wants the ICD-10 implementation date delayed to Oct. 1, 2015.
Read MoreSilverchair and American Medical Association Working Together
The American Medical Association (AMA) has introduced the semantic online hosting platform, JAMA Network. This comes from Silverchair Information Systems and is built on the semantic SCM6– a real-world application of semantic theory.
Read MoreGiving Credit
While watching the end of a movie last night to see where exactly it was filmed, I paid attention to the credits. Coming from a publishing perspective, I tried matching what they list to what we capture about the author, researcher, and creator in a bibliographic citation. What are the matches? The film lists the animation team, the animal handlers, the costume designers, the makeup artists, the photographers, the accounting team, and on and on and on. There are hundreds of people behind the scenes, and they are all listed in the credits. What do we list for a team of 3000 researchers working on a big data project? We cite a few authors with a spare affiliation line and an acknowledgement to the funders. What about the rest of the contributors? Are there others that should be cited?
Read MoreThe Costs Continue to Rise
The debate surrounding an ICD-10 delay continues after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) indicated its intention to push the deadline back one year to Oct 1., 2014. While many providers are struggling to get a handle on ICD-10, some have made strides in the implementation process and could be hurt financially by the delay.
Read MoreClinicalKey Released To Healthcare Market
Elsevier has released ClinicalKey, their clinical insight engine powered by Smart Content. This new release maps the largest collection of clinical resources, covering every medical and surgical specialty, to a proprietary medical taxonomy. ClinicalKey aims to provide more clinically relevant answers than conventional search engines, saving doctors’ time and informing decisions that can improve outcomes.
Read MorePersonal Semantic Web
A new online application has moved from private to public beta and it allows you to build and view a website with massive amounts of data arranged in an easily understandable manner. Silk is an online application that tries to tap into the “semantic” Web by collecting and displaying information from the Internet, from your own documents, and from other sources. The idea is to let people select “the data they want from the mass of information available, and to view and arrange it in ways that make sense to them.”
Read MoreSharePoint Integration Continues to Grow in Popularity
Metalogix Software has released Content Manager, a solution that makes it faster and more efficient to manage content in Microsoft SharePoint 2010. The new solution enhances SharePoint with the ability to make bulk edits to metadata and a ribbon that makes it easier for users to have access to advanced features such as taxonomy.
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