CMS Tips for ICD-10

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

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

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

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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New Use of Semantic Technology

Invention Machine has released Goldfire 7.5, an optimal decision engine. This release is available on iPad and Android Tablets, and supports decision-making and helps organizations reach the optimal results.

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Search Engine Optimization Still in the Game

ONSIS is experiencing amazing growth with their search engine optimization service, Profit By Search, which has resulted in many worldwide projects. Profit By Search works on Internet marketing and other online promotional activities using effective link building strategies, content strategies, metatagging, and other techniques.

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Healthcare Technology and Change

Healthcare systems continue to face enormous challenges. In the list, if not at the top, is the challenge of technology. eHealth is a broad term for a variety of technologies and services, from electronic health records to telecare systems. This interesting news was found on News-Medical in their article, “eHealth offers Europe solutions that can help avoid healthcare crisis.”

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