August 2012

Webinar Series To Prepare for ICD-10

By |August 20th, 2012

Availity has announced a four-part webinar series designed to help medical providers prepare for impending inpatient diagnosis and procedure code changes associated with ICD-10.

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Symmetric Multi-Processing Featured

By |August 16th, 2012

Allegro CL V9.0 has been released, bringing symmetric multi-processing capabilities that result in faster, more intelligent, and scalable applications.

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CMS Tips for ICD-10

By |August 15th, 2012

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is offering healthcare providers reading material as they continue to wait for a final ICD-10 deadline ruling.

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Semantic Results with Semantic Technology

By |August 14th, 2012

Atiego, a semantic analysis company, has used their skills and technology to make it possible to search the archive of the National Institute of Health’s PubMed library. This library consists of more than 400,000 research papers, using a graphical interface rather than just scrolling through pages of results.

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Financial Impacts of ICD-10

By |August 14th, 2012

Few healthcare organizations are unconcerned about what the future holds in regards to the ICD-10 coding classification transition and how that will impact their financial picture.

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Organizing Your Taxonomy Terms

By |August 13th, 2012

Once you have a tentative list of terms for your taxonomy-to-be, it can be a bit overwhelming, especially if you have thousands of terms. (In scientific and technical fields, a typical taxonomy might have 5,000-10,000 terms.) How to start dealing with them all? A good first step is to organize the information into main categories. Choose some logical main areas, and don’t be too concerned up front about whether or not the areas or the initial wordings are exactly what you’ll ultimately want them to be. You’re just roughing things out at this stage. Then use those main areas as buckets, and dump the more specific terms into those buckets.

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