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ICD-10 is a frequent topic, and the challenges of the transition continue to stay on the minds and lips of most healthcare professionals. Some physicians are feeling the frustration of losing quality patient healthcare time to handle the coding and technical side of this update.
Read MoreCMS Offers Features for Findability
Netia has released an enhanced version of its content management system. This version will contain an enriched metadata management module, more robust indexing and segmentation tools, and more flexible control over the entire system.
Read MoreIncreasing Specificity
Digilant has released their marketing system designed to pinpoint specific audiences. Diligant Multicultural uses semantic language and geographic information to match a preferred audience in a variety of advertising placements.
Read MorePlanning Ahead
The ICD-10 transition will require new technology and workflow adjustments for everyone involved. The implementation is set for October 1, 2014 and will have five times the number of codes than its predecessor.
Read MoreSocial Media Photos Feed Ad Business
Facebook is now offering users cloud storage space for photos, even if they don’t publish them on their page. The Photo Sync feature will also include the metadata tracking feature that will be used in their ads business.
Read MoreGoing Open
The Open Group has announced the availability of two new industry standards that enable businesses to embrace elements of service-oriented architecture and cloud computing.
Read MoreDealing with Data
WAND has announced their integration with Nintex Workflow. By using the DataFacet Automatic Annotation custom action for Nintex Workflow, users can automatically tag documents with taxonomy metadata as part of a workflow process. Seattle PI brought this news to our attention in their article, “WAND DataFacet Adds Automatic Tagging Capabilities to Nintex Workflow for SharePoint…
Read MoreAccess to Data is Key
Even with the advances in digital medical record data, less than 50% of a patient’s health information is available in an electronic format. One organization is offering an enhancement solution for existing patient information. Integrated Patient Record (IPR) aggregates, shares, and optimizes data for a complete patient-centric view.
Read MoreUnderstanding the Architecture
Information architecture can be a high-level topic for some. At its most basic, it is about how to choose the right way to structure information and in turn, how to help people navigate it.
Read MoreDublin Core: Sort of a Metadata Standard
The Dublin Core metadata guidelines started in 1995 in Dublin, Ohio which is why they are called the Dublin Core. The beginning was actually in the basement of the OCLC building, in March of 1995. In April of 1996, the Dublin Core advocates went to Warwick, England, where they had another conference. So there are Warwick Conventions for the Dublin Core. So there’s no mystery about the names; these things are just named after the places where they started.
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