By Melody Smith|June 8th, 20122012-06-07T22:37:12-04:00
The Federation of American Hospitals (FAH) has chimed in on the debate over the delay of the ICD-10 implementation, and they believe the one-year delay will be beneficial. The federation also believes that all segments of the healthcare industry should transition to ICD-10 at the same time.
By Melody Smith|June 7th, 20122012-06-06T23:21:21-04:00
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has released the new edition of the recommended practice SERU: A Shared Electronic Resource Understanding (NISO RP-7-2012).
By Melody Smith|June 7th, 20122012-06-06T23:19:03-04:00
China is fast becoming a global leader in scientific publishing and scientific research. Papers with authors from China now represent 6.6 % of the 3,425 papers published in Nature journals in 2011. This is up from 5.3 percent in 2010.
By Melody Smith|June 6th, 20122012-06-05T22:56:49-04:00
We have discussed the ebook conundrum for book lovers and fans of the actual printed word and paper. The temptation is stronger every day for these diminishing holdouts to cross over to the “electronic” side.
By Melody Smith|June 6th, 20122012-06-05T22:54:21-04:00
The ICD-10 debate rages on. Will it remain a one-year delay or will the AMA win with the two-year delay argument? One healthcare veteran believes this controversy places perspective on the situation, as well as some validity.
By Melody Smith|June 6th, 20122012-06-05T22:51:54-04:00
Ontology Systems has released Ontology Intelligent 360, a suite of apps that deliver enterprise views, dashboards and fully featured operational solutions using Ontology 3 semantic search technology.
By Melody Smith|June 5th, 20122012-06-04T23:22:05-04:00
The American Medical Association believes that a minimum of a two-year delay is necessary to conduct a cost-benefit analysis on physician practices and evaluate whether an alternative code set is more appropriate.
By Melody Smith|June 5th, 20122012-06-04T23:20:13-04:00
It is a constant challenge for any website to maintain their position in search engines. We know that first hand. Google’s newest algorithm update is named the Penguin update and many SEO companies are starting to learn what the search engine now expects.
By Melody Smith|June 5th, 20122012-06-04T23:17:33-04:00
Pipeline Publishing have announced the winners of its prestigious 2012 Innovation Awards. These awards are considered one of the most credible and objective endorsement of innovation and thought-leadership in the communications technology industry.
By Melody Smith|June 4th, 20122012-06-03T21:27:41-04:00
In Boston on May 16 at Harvard University, The Wellcome Trust hosted the International Workshop on Contributorship and Scholarly Attribution. Several presenters outlined other roles we should probably begin to acknowledge and what those roles are. Over the last two weeks I reported on some of the talks made at the workshop. This is the final summary from that meeting. Ginny Barbour is the chief editor of PLOS Medicine for the well-known Public Library of Science (PLoS). Her talk was on “PLOS: Big science and medicine and the attribution of authorship.” She pointed out that past solutions for author attribution do not work. Big science and the accompanying data sets create new attribution problems. “We have been trying to solve the wrong problem” she said.
