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Semantic Consumerism

By Melody Smith|March 28th, 2012|News, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Consumerism

New York-based Precision Health Media continues to raise funds in venture capital, supporting their technology platform for health brands called ConditionMatch. The platform uses semantic analysis to identify Web pages that contain content about commonly diagnosed health conditions, such as diabetes, depression, and allergies. Then it places ads for products related to those conditions on appropriate pages. This is why when you look up the symptoms of acid reflux, conveniently a coupon for Prilosec shows up on the side of the page.

Take Advantage of the Delay

By Melody Smith|March 27th, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on Take Advantage of the Delay

Gateway EDI is continuing their training and credentialing in the medical coding industry regardless of the delay of the October 2013 deadline for complete ICD-10 transition.

Security Fears in the Clouds

By Melody Smith|March 27th, 2012|News|Comments Off on Security Fears in the Clouds

Cloud computing is the topic of choice lately, but there are many hurdles preventing its adoption, i.e. privacy fears. This is a particular important issue for potential customers so those in the “biz” are working hard to develop new skills and technologies to relieve their concerns.

New Semantic Search Engine

By Melody Smith|March 27th, 2012|News, search, semantic|1 Comment

A new semantic search engine that classifies and analyzes the meaning of text has been developed by NEC. Now users will be able to locate text related to a keyword by referencing keyword aspects, thus enabling a more dynamic search result.

The Impact of Additional Delay

By Melody Smith|March 26th, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on The Impact of Additional Delay

The Medical Group Management Association wants the Department of Health and Human Services to do more than delay ICD-10 implementation, they believe additional steps should be included in the ICD-10 timeline for what they call “due diligence.”

Delay Causes Dissent

By Melody Smith|March 23rd, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on Delay Causes Dissent

The topic of every conversation in healthcare organizations far and wide is the delay in the ICD-10 implementation. The pro-ICD-10 crowd insists ICD-10 should not be delayed and their voices are getting louder.

Semantic Search Used in Discovery

By Melody Smith|March 23rd, 2012|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Search Used in Discovery

PureDiscovery is combing their semantic discovery technology with LexisNexis® LAW PreDiscovery. This integration will help litigation discovery professionals find the most relevant documents faster than ever before. Semantic search technology allows the system to 'learn' as litigation documents are uploaded and searched. By applying the intelligence gathered to run smarter searches and help produce precise search results, the results will be much more comprehensive.

Delay or No Delay?

By Melody Smith|March 22nd, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on Delay or No Delay?

A recent survey by Edifecs reports that about two-thirds of health care professionals do not believe a delay in ICD-10 implementation will improve readiness for the new coding standards. This is disheartening considering U.S. health care organizations are working to transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 code sets to accommodate codes for new diseases and procedures. The switch from about 14,000 codes for about 69,000 codes was supposed to be done by October 1, 2013.

Semantic Tagging and Ontologies

By Melody Smith|March 22nd, 2012|News, ontology, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Tagging and Ontologies

Nature Publishing Group has chosen Molecular Connections to carry out ontology enhancements for its key subject terms and semantic tagging for its back files.

Data Standard Models in Competition

By Melody Smith|March 22nd, 2012|News, ontology, semantic, Standards|Comments Off on Data Standard Models in Competition

Open Data Model is a fairly new organization, at least compared to EDM Council. But these competing models have been busy lately. EDM set out classifications based on asset class distinctions as the basis for its model. Open Data's model is based on the ISO 10962 standard and the same organizing principles as Wikipedia.