April 2012

Social Media Becomes New Zealand

By |April 18th, 2012

New Zealand’s government will be focusing on social media and on the government’s role for identity management and network security in the coming year.

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What Impact Will the ICD-10 Delay Have on Salaries?

By |April 17th, 2012

Experts are predicting that hospital employees can expect to earn slightly more in 2012 due to the focus on ICD-10 coding classification transition.

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Search and Semantic – Google’s New Recipe

By |April 17th, 2012

Google’s upcoming search makeover has many people worried. Even though semantic technology has been embedded in search for years, Google’s plan to include more of it has some worried.

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NextGate Meets Needs of Healthcare Patient Data

By |April 17th, 2012

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has completed the transition to the NextGate Multi-Language EMPI. This was their choice solution for Patient Centric View initiatives. The NextGate Multi-Language EMPI replaces their incumbent solution.

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Maintaining a Thesaurus in an Excel Workbook

By |April 16th, 2012

There’s been some discussion recently in the Taxonomy Community of Practice LinkedIn group about free or low cost thesaurus management software. I’ve noticed a dearth of postings about using Excel, a very popular tool, particularly if you already have a Microsoft Office license. Experts disparage Excel as a tool, but it can provide a way to start your thesaurus development. And, if you are mindful of organizing your Excel worksheet so that its data can be imported later into a dedicated tool, you can achieve some important objectives. Excel is indeed the most popular thesaurus management tool. (see Taxonomy & metadata strategies for effective content management workshop slides in which taxonomy expert Joe Busch reiterates this.)

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Semantic Technology Needs A Solid Taxonomy

By |April 16th, 2012

The changes in retail traffic and popularity of things like GroupOn, Try It Local, etc. is motivating GeoCommerce to complete the process of consummating strategic relationships to ensure their footing in the future of consumer identification and authentication.

Healthcare Costs Face Another Challenge

By |April 16th, 2012

No one will argue that America’s out-of-control healthcare costs needs an anti-inflammatory. Many contend that consumer driven medicine is the wrong way to handle the problem.

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Semantic Technology To Achieve Findability

By |April 13th, 2012

EffectiveSoft has released a new version of Intellexer Summarizer, the feature that recognizes names of people, places, etc. and relates between them. Semantic technology is available to everyone, so the solutions from EffectiveSoft company are no exception. However, their new version does offer a more precise summary of query. This allows the user to carry out scientific and analytical researches in an efficient and timely manner.

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Great Gift for Historians

By |April 13th, 2012

Historians and genealogists are celebrating across the country. Okay, that might be a bit of a stretch, but I feel certain they are eager to review the new release of the Great Depression era census data.

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