Challenges of the Dictionary
American Heritage Dictionary recently published their fifth edition of what is known as the conservative dictionary. What is considered a conservative dictionary, you ask? It isn’t because of its politics, it is due to the conservative usages it includes.
Read MoreStreamlining the ICD-10 Challenge
Healthcare providers are looking for ways to streamline the coding process during the ICD-10 coding classification system. The challenge of the transition includes the number of codes in the new ICD-10 system – five times the number of codes in the prior set.
Read MoreSocial Media Forges Relationship with Law Enforcement
In a move that changes social media to another type of information source, Twitter has agreed to work with the Australian law enforcement in preserving metadata in particular instances, such as cyber bullying cases. This came after some accusations that Twitter was turning a blind eye to Australian law and not reacting appropriately to hostile messages.
Read MoreAccess Innovations Announces Two Free Webinars This Month
Access Innovations, Inc. invites you to two free hour-long webinars this month as a continuation of the successful Discovery Tour Series. Join us on Monday, October 22, at 3 p.m. EDT and Tuesday, October 30, at 3 p.m. EDT to discover for yourself the software suite that is revolutionizing thesaurus building and content management as you know it.
Read MoreHistorical Cultural Data Being Digitized
Culture and online are two words rarely used together, but recently the European Parliament voted through a directive that allows anyone to access ‘orphan works’ – cultural works for which no copyright owner can be located. In addition to this, the digital portal Europeana has offered to freely reuse the metadata associated with its 20 million digitized cultural objects.
Read MoreManaging Healthcare Data Has Its Challenges
Certify Data Systems has released its next generation HealthLogix HIE platform. This solution delivers on the promise of an aggregated patient view from all healthcare encounters across the community.
Read MoreSemantic Search Technology Speeds Up
TextWise has made available V1.7 One-Click Findability on salesforce.com’s AppExchange. Their semantic search technology enables users to migrate data with a never before known speed.
Read MoreSocial Media Data Continues to Grow
Sysomos is known for their social media monitoring and analytics. Now they can brag about reaching an important milestone – the indexing of 100,000,000,000 (one hundred billion) social posts. This interesting news was brought to us by MarketWatch in their article, “Social Media Monitoring Leader Sysomos Indexes 100,000,000,000th Post.” Sysomos collects social media data in real…
Read MoreSemantic Advertising Founder Takes On Next Challenge
Seven years ago, Peer39 created a new category of semantic advertising. This technology semantically analyzes every web page in order to properly understand and classify the meaning of a web page and then places the most appropriate advertising. Semantic advertising increases the chance that the viewer will click-thru because only advertising relevant to what they are viewing. This technology has changed the world of online advertising. Despite all this, Peer39 was sold earlier this year to Digital Generation.
Read MoreLeaders in Technology Recognized
Kofax has received the ranking of “Leader” by Forrester Research in the industry analyst firm’s August 2012 report entitled, “The Forrester Wave: MultichannelCapture, Q3 2012”. Vendors selected for inclusion in the Multichannel Capture Forrester Wave report were evaluated against 18 criteria grouped into three high-level buckets: current offering, strategy and market presence. Kofax had the highest score in these three high-level categories.
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