Interesting Exercise for IT Professionals
An unusual and spirited event targeted to season developers and engineers in the practice of information architecture is scheduled for its seventh appearance at the IA Summit.
January 2013
College Search Takes On New Technology
By Melody Smith|January 30th, 20132013-01-29T23:47:55-05:00
Choosing a college is daunting to every high school student looking to broaden their horizons and further their education. Now there is a new tool available to assist seekers in refining their searches using map search technology.
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Jokes, Unstructured
By Melody Smith|January 30th, 20132013-01-28T22:58:28-05:00
Humor me while I share a funny (pun totally intended) with you. I stumbled across A Taxonomy of Cognitive Jokes and the more I […]
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What Does the Future Hold for Search?
By Melody Smith|January 30th, 20132013-01-28T22:57:31-05:00
The act of search continues to evolve and grow as technology does the same. Semantic technology takes search to a new level. It demands that the software understand the information in the way it was intended. For software to comprehend the meaning behind what a human has put to text requires a certain amount of artificial intelligence.
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Webinar to Assist with ICD-10 Transition
By Melody Smith|January 29th, 20132013-01-29T23:45:18-05:00
With the many challenges facing healthcare organizations as they prepare for the ICD-10 coding classification transition, many are seeking help.
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Data Deliberations
By Melody Smith|January 29th, 20132013-01-29T23:46:53-05:00
Big data seems to be on the tongues and minds of many business people. Hands are wringing as folks are unsure what to do […]
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Measuring Accuracy in Search
By Melody Smith|January 28th, 20132022-04-08T15:13:58-04:00
When people talk about how accurate the search is, there are lots of different ways to measure that. This list indicates some of the ways that we talk about measuring accuracy.
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Don’t Miss the Data Harmony Users Group Meeting on February 18-20, 2013
By Melody Smith|January 28th, 20132013-01-27T23:36:16-05:00
On Tuesday evening, join us for dinner at the Albuquerque Aquarium, part of the ABQ BioPark, along the majestic Rio Grande in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Our dinner site is next to the 285,000-gallon shark tank, which is home to five species of sharks, several sea turtles, dozens of manta rays and even a few barracudas. (Fear not! Our dinner menu will be different from the inhabitants of the tank! We do not plan to have fish on the menu Tuesday night!)
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Training is Even More Important
By Melody Smith|January 25th, 20132013-01-24T23:20:17-05:00
ICD-10 is no longer a foreign term to anyone in healthcare and now technology. It is a comprehensive, internationally used list designed to code for diseases and other healthcare conditions. It is scheduled to be implemented in two years on October 1, 2014. This switch to ICD-10 requires software updates and staff training. These are challenges for most and require some help.
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What Ontologies Bring to the Party
By Melody Smith|January 25th, 20132013-01-24T23:17:37-05:00
A science blogger shows an example of how important ontology development is to accessing your information. You see, sometimes even technical geeks get lost in the terminology of browsers, indexing, and taxonomies. This particular science blogger took time to explain for the confused few while reviewing GoPubMed, an ontology-based browser.
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