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New Book Addresses Ontologies
Woodhead Publishing Ltd’s new book “Library Classification Trends in the 21st Century” traces the development in and around library classification as reported in literature published in the first decade of the 21st century.
Read MoreEBSCO Launches eBook Subscription
EBSCO Publishing has released their first subscription eBook collection – eBook Academic Subscription Collection™. The full-text eBooks cover a broad spectrum of academic subjects with the nearly 70,000 titles.
Read MorePreparing for the Deadline
Many are concerned about the delay in the ICD-10 compliance deadline and worry that in actuality, it won’t improve readiness and could even harm other health reform efforts.
Read MoreSemantic 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.
Read MoreTake 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.
Read MoreSecurity 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.
Read MoreNew Semantic Search Engine
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.
Read MoreThe 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.”
Read MoreDelay 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.
Read MoreSemantic 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.
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