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New Upgrade to be Standards Compliant

By Melody Smith | May 4, 2012

SequelMed, Inc. has released an upgrade to compliance with ANSI 5010 for its EMR, EHR and Practice Management software products. This update will enable users to send HIPAA 5010 compliant claims as per the requirements set forth by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. MarketWatch brought this news to our attention in their article,…

Data Standard Models in Competition

By Melody Smith | March 22, 2012

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

By Melody Smith | March 13, 2012

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.)

Standards Can Help Manage Big Data

By Melody Smith | February 24, 2012 |

Between buzzwords like “cloud” and “big data”, it is hard to see through the mirage of mobile devices and social networks let alone analyze or store the data it produces.

Not All Data is Created Equal

By Melody Smith | January 17, 2012

There is a lot of talk about data, the massive volumes of it and the speed at which it is multiplying. In this particular case, healthcare data is under the limelight – mHealth in particular. It is important to remember that data includes metadata ontologies, semantics and metrics, as well as their standards.

Knowledge Organization Requires Standards

By Melody Smith | December 27, 2011

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

By Melody Smith | November 30, 2011

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.

Standards for Dummies

By Melody Smith | November 23, 2011

Metadata is the data that describes data and this metadata map is called Seeing Standards: A Visualisation of the Metadata Universe. It demonstrates the large variety of standards, the communities they serve, their purpose, function and domain.

Five Myths about Taxonomy and SharePoint

By Melody Smith | November 21, 2011 |

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

By Melody Smith | November 18, 2011

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.