June 2013

John Kuranz Brings 30+ Years’ Expertise to Access Integrity

By |June 24th, 2013

Access Innovations is proud to announce John Kuranz as chief executive officer of its newest endeavor, Access Integrity — which employs Access Innovations’ award-winning Data Harmony software suite to the medical coding and billing industries.

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Taxonomy by All

By |June 21st, 2013

Wikipedia is often disparaged as a reliable source because anyone can edit any entry at any time. So given that history, how credible would a taxonomy be that was built by crowdsourcing? Some interesting information about one such attempt was found on The Daily, a publication of the University of Washington, in their article, “Playing to the crowd.

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Shopping Semantics

By |June 21st, 2013

A new shopping search engine, TheFind, has released a new iPad app designed to give users an even more effective experience of finding what they want using the iPad.

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New Merger Benefits All

By |June 20th, 2013

Concept Searching has formed an alliance with Collabware that merges Concept Searching’s expertise in semantic metadata generation, auto-classification and taxonomy management with Collabware’s experience in records management and compliance control.

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Training is Essential

By |June 19th, 2013

With the October 2014 date looming, many providers are fearful they will need to memorize each and every one of the 68,000 new medical codes to be in compliance.

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Keeping Up With the Trends

By |June 18th, 2013

The latest technology terminology shows up in trends. Big data, information architecture, analytics, and of course semantic anything. How does the average person, let alone professional, stay on top of the latest vernacular?

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Outlining the World (and Its Parts)

By |June 17th, 2013

As we have seen, there were a lot of early philosophers who outlined the world as they saw it. While that’s an ambitious undertaking (especially for academic trailblazers), they truly built an outline; they truly built a taxonomy of the world as they saw it.

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Financial Standards in Semantics

By |June 14th, 2013

As the 2013 Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) draws nearer, additional industry leaders join the innovative regulators and others to discuss the issues facing financial services organizations and the innovative new solutions.

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