September 2012

Preparations Involve More Than Technology

By |September 6th, 2012

Healthcare providers are working towards the ICD-10 coding transition and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released recommendations of what the communication plan for the ICD-10 transition should contain.

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Strategic Partnership with Semantics

By |September 5th, 2012

JoBookIt has granted Redmatch a special license to use its technology to help millions of users find employment. Redmatch will use the biggest semantic engine in the world in their products. Redmatch will now be able to offer its customers additional technological solutions previously unavailable.

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Going Digital and Green

By |September 5th, 2012

Pursuing their commitment to become a paperless facility, Galway Clinic has already converted many paper documents into electronic records. To handle the portion of their enterprise that requires scanning and indexing, they chose Access Enterprise Forms Management to capture, index and store the data.

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Preparing for the Test

By |September 4th, 2012

Edifecs’ facilitated a discussion around challenges and best approaches for the ICD-10 testing. This project is quite possibility the toughest one most professionals have faced due to the complexity and the potential impact.

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Testing, Maintaining, and Implementing Your Taxonomy

By |September 3rd, 2012

Once you’ve developed a taxonomy, of course you want to use it. And before using it, you want (or should want) to test it. And, of course, the use is two ways. You can apply it to the records, for indexing, and you can use it for search, too; both of those applications are use tests at first, and can serve as use tests again for maintenance of the taxonomy. Once you get into the maintenance phase, you have to be able to edit and otherwise change lots of parts of the terms. You might change the status of the term itself, what it is called; for example, you could change the primary term that you use and put some other word in as the non-preferred term. You might want to delete or add a relationship. Of course, you want to add new terms. You might want to move the branches around. All of these things are part of routine taxonomy maintenance.

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August 2012

Strong Taxonomies Improve Findability

By |August 31st, 2012

Zenya has released multiple updates to their keyword platform, which results in improving the clients control to leverage keyword data and eventually their marketing success. Their approach to keyword generation includes a database of more than 1.4 billion keywords, including 600 million categorized by searcher intent.

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Access Innovations Announces Free Live Discovery Tour of Data Harmony Software Suite

By |August 30th, 2012

Access Innovations, Inc., a leader in the data management industry, will present a live Discovery Tour of the Data Harmony software suite Tuesday, September 18, 2012, at 3 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.

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Critical Questions Regarding ICD-10

By |August 30th, 2012

With the many decisions healthcare providers are being asked to make in preparation for the ICD-10 coding classification transition, it seems it would be beneficial to ask software vendors some very applicable and important questions.

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