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December 2012

Don’t Miss the Data Harmony Users Group Meeting, February 18 – 20, 2013!

By Melody Smith|December 3rd, 20122012-12-02T22:53:17-05:00

Here is a sneak peek at two of the in-depth case studies you will hear about during the meeting: Developing the PLOS Thesaurus: Jonas Dupuich of PLOS will tell the story of how PLOS identified the need to improve its thesaurus, completed the task of updating the thesaurus, and implemented services to leverage the thesaurus throughout the organization in partnership with Access Innovations. Expect to hear about lessons learned, best practices, and a glance at how PLOS is moving forward from here.

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Where Are You in the Plan?

By Melody Smith|December 3rd, 20122012-12-02T23:00:26-05:00

With the deadline for the ICD-10 coding classification transition getting closer and closer, only 85% of healthcare professionals are evening acknowledging the scope of the project and less than that had even started the implementation process.

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November 2012

Managing Our Data

By Melody Smith|November 30th, 20122012-11-30T00:01:04-05:00

Each and every day we create metadata in our emails, texts, Word documents, spreadsheets, and more. When you multiply that by the five billion people in the world, well, you get the picture. Human-generated content is growing by the second. How do we manage it? How do we search it?

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Search and Semantics

By Melody Smith|November 30th, 20122012-11-29T23:59:47-05:00

Search engine optimization is a constant challenge for marketers, and that may have gotten easier or more difficult with semantic technology. The users can go either way on that one.

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Healthcare Organizations Prepare for the Deadline

By Melody Smith|November 28th, 20122012-11-28T00:14:11-05:00

Health Revenue Assurance Holdings was selected by the Summa Health System to provide ICD-10 transition services. This is another in a chain of healthcare providers moving forward towards meeting the deadline of October 2014.

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Data Provides Opportunities

By Melody Smith|November 28th, 20122012-11-28T00:10:56-05:00

Data is everywhere: on the Web, within an enterprise, in both closed and open academic communities, across every technological field or surface available. The Hindu brought this information to our attention in their article, “Connecting the dots, lucratively.” The frequency and availability of data provide an opportunity for analytics, and analytics can provide perspective.

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Deadlines and Plans

By Melody Smith|November 27th, 20122012-11-26T23:03:24-05:00

If you look at the calendar and you rely on ICD coding, it is easy to see we are two years away from the much dreaded deadline for the ICD-10 implementation. Where are you in your plan for preparation and implementation?

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Taxonomies and Standards

By Melody Smith|November 26th, 20122012-11-25T22:25:44-05:00

We’ve discussed what it takes to make the components of a digital information model work but one of the things that is most important, if you want it all to work together, is standards. There are several controlled vocabulary standards, as well as networking protocols that have an impact on taxonomy implementation. There are also standards having to do with markup and with metadata and data modeling that impact thesauri.

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EBSCO Releases Humanities Source

By Melody Smith|November 23rd, 20122012-11-22T22:41:48-05:00

EBSCO has released a new resource for the humanities field. Humanities Source was developed from a merger of high-quality databases from EBSCO Publishing and H.W. Wilson, and includes sources that were never previously available.

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December 2012

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