Musical Taxonomy Takes Another Step
One of the more popular users in taxonomies, Pandora – the Music Genome Project, is now offering channels specifically geared to workouts.
New Start-Up Using Semantic Search
Locu is a data-focused startup founded by MIT graduates and computer science researchers that plan to create the world’s largest real-time, structured repository of small business offerings data. Their goal is that this data source will increase the efficiency of local search.
CYIOS Focuses on the Team Approach
CYIOS has submitted its patent application for CYIPRO with the USPTO. Their project-based management system reinforces the team approach by allowing everyone to work on goal centric projects. According to Timothy Carnahan, CEO of CYIOS, "If you're not working on a project within a team, then most likely you're not working toward the goals of the organization."
Crowdsourcing Needs a Solid Taxonomy
Editing by committee is a prolonged, mostly painful, process that quite often sends me running away seeking refuge among my own office and my own delete key. Crowdsourcing can be very similar. One approach that can help is to have a taxonomy built with categories and terms that apply to the entire industry.
Cost Reduction Options for Hospitals
Many are concerned about the cost of healthcare, patients and hospitals alike. Cuts in Medicare funding, increases in insurance premiums, and new federal requirements […]
PatentVista Manages Patents with Taxonomies
UBM TechInsights has released the next generation of PatentVista, a patent portfolio management software. PatentVista provides an intuitive interface designed to help licensing teams make better decisions. The taxonomy tool enables organizations to leverage their internal expertise to organize, rate, review and search their patents.
ICD-10 Projects Increasing
IT management and healthcare professionals across the country are ramping up projects to create their ICD-10 plan as the December 13, 2013 deadline date nears. Everyone is facing common challenges of budget, bandwidth, staffing, training and of course, technical issues.
The Information Age-less
In a blog post last week, I discussed Robert Darnton’s recently published article in the Chronicle of Higher Education’s “The Chronicle Review”, where Mr. Darnton identified and debunked, “5 Myths About the Information Age.” The first myth he debunked was the notion that the book is dead. Not only is the book not dead, it is thriving. I commented on the relationship between the printed page and how it can be supported by digital content and vice versa. One can drive greater usage of the other, if the digital content is effectively designed.
QuadraMed Releases New Version of Coding Software
QuadraMed has released a new version of Quantim® Facility Coding that supports both ICD-9 and ICD-10 code sets.
Social Media Scorecards
New features for SAS Social Media Analytics have been released, which include social scorecards. This new competitive intelligence functionality provides social community managers the ability to view activity over time and ascertain the effectiveness of online and social programs.