New Upgrade to be Standards Compliant
SequelMed, Inc. has released an upgrade to compliance with ANSI 5010 for its EMR, EHR and Practice Management software products. This update will enable […]
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.
Founder/President of Access Innovations Receives Prestigious Ann Marie Cunningham Award From NFAIS
Marjorie M.K. Hlava, founder and CEO of Access Innovations, recently received the prestigious Ann Marie Cunningham Award for outstanding service from NFAIS (the National Federation of Advanced information Services.)
Knowledge Organization Requires Standards
There is much automation in the medical world, both in treatment and billing. One of those that were hardest for physicians to accept was clinical pathways. A clinical pathway is a common medical treatment for a disease and care developed by one of the most appropriate care plans. These are used as management models in an effort to improve health care quality and to control medical costs. Standardized electronic clinical pathways use ontologies as shared conceptual models or knowledge organization.
DOD Takes On Huge Project Using the Semantic Web
The Department of Defense (DOD) is streamlining its millions of personnel and IT systems by standardizing data sharing through the use of the semantic Web. Welcome to the new decade.
Five Myths about Taxonomy and SharePoint
A couple of weeks ago there was a blog post, or repost by Jeff Carr, on the Early Site. I enjoyed reading it, and of course I have a few thoughts and places where I do not exactly agree. Let me take them on this week. There are 5 Myths. I will write about each of them separately. Myth #1: SharePoint now has taxonomy management.
Standards for Centralized Indexes
Centralized indexes for discovery services seems to be the new fad. Beginning with Summon from Serials Solutions and followed by EBSCO Discovery Service, Primo Central from Ex Libris and OCLC’s WorldCat Local, these services depend on massive indexes populated with content representing each component of a library’s collection.