By Melody Smith|April 24th, 20122012-04-23T23:08:36-04:00
Do you long for the time when we can chat with our gadgets like the crew of the USS Enterprise did with its computer on Star Trek? I’m not sure I am ready for that level of intimacy or dependency on a computer, or like Dave Bowman and Frank Poole do in 2001 before HAL went violently bonkers?
By Melody Smith|April 24th, 20122012-04-23T23:06:08-04:00
Connecting users with the information they seek is one of the central pillars of the librarian profession. The new web-scale discovery services for libraries provide quick searching seamlessly across various components of indexed content.
By Melody Smith|April 23rd, 20122012-04-22T20:31:23-04:00
Access Innovations, Inc., a leader in the data management industry, has collaborated with the Iowa Legislative Services Agency to build a customized thesaurus that allows the Iowa Legislature General Assembly to easily access its extensive legal body of existing and proposed laws, bills, acts, and regulations by using controlled, vocabulary-driven indexing in addition to published indexing codes.
By Melody Smith|April 23rd, 20122012-04-22T20:32:38-04:00
Texting may be faster, more efficient and pretty much gets the job done. But the slippery slope of bad grammar we have taken from emails to texting has taken away all quality of writing and content. Using the smallest number of letters to get your message across does not equal writing. I cringe every time I get the text that simply says “k”. Because apparently typing an “o” in front of it is just too much to ask.
By Melody Smith|April 20th, 20122012-04-19T22:59:35-04:00
TEMIS was chosen by Gannett for its semantic content enrichment solution better known as Luxid. Their semantic tagging and linking software as a tagging engine assists in the categorization of news articles and consistent indexing of content against a common taxonomy.
By Melody Smith|April 20th, 20122012-04-19T22:57:48-04:00
Digital Reasoning and Semantic Research have announced their integration solution with Semantic data fusion and analysis software. This solution represents the first time that unstructured text analytics at scale has been combined with visualization and analytical workflow tools. The result will deliver a unique solution for automatically understanding people, places, and hidden relationships in big data.
By Melody Smith|April 19th, 20122012-04-18T22:35:59-04:00
Elsevier/MC Strategies has announced its continued commitment to the ICD-10 transition and the introduction of a major revision to its e-book, A Guide to Education and Training for ICD-10 Implementation. Makes one wonder if the revision is about what to do in case of a delay?
By Melody Smith|April 19th, 20122012-04-18T22:34:15-04:00
Seamless integration of knowledge and data is a requirement for modern healthcare systems. Being able to respond quickly to a patient’s needs is priority. With various information systems being utilized to streamline and automate patient care processes, semantic technology is a need of its own.
By Melody Smith|April 19th, 20122012-04-18T22:32:50-04:00
Decernis receives new patent for an indexing system and method to identify and validate chemicals, foods, and commodities in documents and databases. This innovation enables a user to find any reference to a food, chemical, or contaminant in any language across the Internet.
By Melody Smith|April 18th, 20122012-04-17T22:41:35-04:00
There is little middle-ground when it comes to the ICD-10 implementation deadline delay. Debates on both sides believe passionately that there are merits of staying the course in preparation or using cash on hand for definite causes. Some believe you don’t have to choose. They believe that clinical documentation assessments and improvement efforts can benefit organizations now, despite of what the results of the delay will be.
