Taxonomy Adds Value to Content
If you have been a reader for anytime at all, you know by now that I find taxonomies of alternate topics very intriguing, and I wasn't disappointed by this latest find.
May 2013
Are You Ready?
By Melody Smith|May 8th, 20132013-05-07T23:09:54-04:00
With the ICD-10 coding classification transition countdown seemingly going faster, how ready are providers for the implementation? A survey by Aloft Group, a Newburyport, Massachusetts healthcare branding and marketing firm, sheds some light on just that.
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Managing All That Data
By Melody Smith|May 7th, 20132013-05-06T23:16:52-04:00
Big data. Unstructured data. Semi-structured data. Data, data, data. It seems like everyone is talking about data and the challenges that comes with it.
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Technology in the Sky
By Melody Smith|May 7th, 20132013-05-06T23:12:28-04:00
Algebraix Data Corporation announced its SPARQL Server RDF database successfully executed all 17 of its queries on the SP2 benchmark up to one billion triples on one computer node. This computationally complex testing exceeds all others before it.
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Ranganathan, Classification, and British Toys
By Melody Smith|May 6th, 20132013-05-05T18:25:09-04:00
I’ve mentioned Ranganathan briefly in some earlier posts. Let’s look at his innovations and influence from a historical perspective.
Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan (1892-1972) was an Indian mathematician and […]
Metadata Providing Structure
By Melody Smith|May 6th, 20132013-05-05T18:18:53-04:00
M-Files has received a cash infusion to further their growth. The Finnish enterprise content management platform does away with traditional folder structures by relying entirely on metadata to help people find documents.
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Ensuring Compliance
By Melody Smith|May 2nd, 20132013-05-01T21:06:16-04:00
The impending ICD-10 coding classification transition is a challenge for not just hospitals and physicians, but other healthcare providers are preparing for this "new world" with training.
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Application Blocks Aid Customization
By Melody Smith|May 2nd, 20132013-05-01T21:11:40-04:00
Microsoft recently released Enterprise Library (EL) 6.0 with a semantic logging application block. Enterprise Library has a long history of providing architectural guidance, recommended practices, and reusable components to help developers, architects, and IT professionals efficiently build line-of-business (LOB) systems.
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Emotional Intelligence
By Melody Smith|May 1st, 20132013-04-30T22:51:38-04:00
Defining our own emotions is difficult enough, but now Google is working on a semantic natural language technology that will read emotions and meaning from your internet history so your query returns a dynamic and comprehensive result. Search is no longer about just keywords.
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April 2013
Data About Data
By Melody Smith|April 30th, 20132013-04-29T23:41:54-04:00
The massive growth in the volume of data being created is no surprise to anyone. Most people think of documents, photos, and programs as the main contributor to this mountain of data, but don't forget about digital video and broadcast video. For instance, it has been reported that the television program Deadliest Catch creates almost 1PB of digital film per episode.
