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New Medical Coding Changes the Rules of the Playground
Few areas of healthcare are exempt from staring at a deadline that though two years away, isn’t feeling way too close for comfort. To prepare for the change from ICD-9 to ICD-10 providers aren’t the only ones impacted by the coding switch. Vendors and payers are also feeling the crunch.
Read MoreLabeling or Profiling?
Labeling people based on behaviors is not a new technology or even behavior. This has been done since the beginning of time. However, with the advancement of semantic technology and the flood of data available, it has become overwhelming to discern a simplified approach to organization.
Read MoreSemantic Enrichment Solutions
TEMIS has launched the next generation of its flagship semantic content enrichment solution, Luxid(R). This semantic tagging platform automatically extracts relevant information and identifies relationships residing in unstructured data and facilitates links between similar and related documents.
Read MoreMetadata Makes Information More Useful
Storage technologies for the semantic web is a challenging but popular area in technology. Internet and cloud computing users are seeking data management in a time when data is big. In tests designed to find the best storage technologies for Web 3.0, Apache’s Hadoop database, HBase, out-performed MySQL Cluster.
Read MoreIntelligence Data Equals Big Data
Intelligent Software Solutions (ISS) has opened a new office in Rome, New York to better meet the growing needs of its main customer in the area, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).
Read MoreThe Y2K of Healthcare
Many healthcare professionals are in scrambling mode to beat the October 2013 deadline to move from ICD-9 to ICD-10
medical coding system. This has an upside for the economy. Anthelio, a healthcare technology company based in Dallas, plans to hire 200 people in Michigan, mostly medical insurance billers and coders. If there is a state that needs an economical boost, Michigan would fit that bill.
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.
Read MoreSemantic 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.
Read MoreSemantic 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.
Read MoreGo 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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