Loosening the Social Media Reigns

The digital workplace has presented some tough challenges. There isn’t a Human Resource department anywhere that hasn’t faced the IT challenge of engaging employees, maintaining productivity and still have a foot hold in the social media world – all at the same time.

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ICD 10 Transition Deadline Stirs Activity

In the continual race to beat the deadline of the ICD 10-transition has various companies scrambling for assistance. Elsevier/MC Strategies will be working with Care Communications to develop an ICD-10 transition resource, and Anthelio has formed a strategic partnership with MedQuist Holdings. Health insurance giant, Humana is incorporating Interactions Corporation’s voice portal technology into its Medicare Part D benefits enrollment program.

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Open Source Giant Celebrates Anniversary

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is celebrating the 10th anniversary of Apache Lucene. First developed in 1997, the Lucene information retrieval software entered the ASF as a sub-project of the Apache Jakarta project in 2001, and soon became a standalone, Top-Level Project (TLP) in 2005.

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Oracle Takes To the Clouds

Oracle has announced a new public cloud service that includes business applications, database software and a Java development platform. The applications are customer relationship management (CRM) and human capital management (HCM) and are based on Oracle’s Fusion application range – and an internal social networking system.

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Semantic Search Powers Robot

The clip of the robot serving food seemed to appear on every site I visited today. I guess our fascination of life as The Jetson’s has not diminished with our youth. Robotic technology continues to advance and the PR2 robot is a good example. Not only is it smart enough to be able to fetch food from the fridge, but with the little help of a technology known as semantic search, it is even clever enough to bring you a sandwich, despite not knowing where or exactly what it is.

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Semantic Technology Used in Epidemiologic Study

The Millennium Cohort Study is a longitudinal cohort study designed in the late 1990s to evaluate how military service may affect long-term health. To perform these analyses, Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) was applied to a broad open-ended question asking the participant if there were any additional health concerns.

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Go With the ICD 10 Flow

During the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) conference in Salt Lake City this week, a World Health Organization (WHO) official urged health care organizations to move forward with the transition to ICD-10 code sets.

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Metalogix Meets the Need for Speed

Metalogix Software released Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint 5.0 as a solution to the ever-increasing growth of SharePoint farms, a situation that has only been around since the launch of SharePoint 2010.

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SharePoint Architecture Webinar

Continuing with the SLA Taxonomy Division’s webinar series, the Why Information Architecture on SharePoint webinar will be held Wednesday, October 12th at 1:00 p.m. EST (10:00 a.m. PST).

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