The debate over faith and a belief in a higher power managed to bring a perfect example of taxonomy to clarity. This interesting, thoughtful and somewhat humorous topic was inspired by the article, “Haught v. Coyne: The Debate of the Century (Not)” on Evolution News and Views.
A new and fairly significant development from the social media world is that Google is now searching and indexing public comments made on Facebook. This has some people and business concerned due to page ranking implications.
Search indexing company PeekYou has taken a look at the fifty biggest names in gaming and assigned each a PeekScore. They wanted to recognize the developers and talent involved in this industry.
Semantic Web and Big Data Technology company, PolarLake, has opened a new office in Frankfurt, Germany. Known for addressing the challenges of financial and reference data management, they apparently see the German market ripe for development.
Care Communications has announced the start of a new ICD-10 Documentation and Financial Risk Assessment Services designed to assess clinical documentation problems and financial risks for healthcare providers.
Adam Pease of Rearden Commerce will present an overview of ontology as it relates to sentiment analysis and content extraction at the Sentiment Analysis Symposium.
A team of librarians from regional branches of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine have come to the Radiology Society of North America's (RNSA) annual conference in Chicago to host educational sessions on helping clinicians easily find reference material. This has taken place for fifteen years and that continues for RNSA 2011 next month.
The impending ICD-10 implementation landed on one author’s list of things that should be keeping healthcare IT officers up at night. No surprise really considering they are under the two year mark before all transition and training needs to be implemented to the new ICD-10 medical coding program.
Apache developers started back in 2003 to develop an open source web search engine. After much work turning their vision into reality and many features such as capabilities for crawling the web and adding a web database for computing, storing and analyzing all web pages discovered, the project – named nutch – went in the Apache Incubator.
Researchers at the RIKEN BioResource Center are developing a system that will be able to bring together all of the information saved in databases around the world to be accessible from a single terminal.