Calling for Volunteers, Data Junkies May Be Interested
The Lake County Genealogical Society now is seeking volunteers to help index the census for Lake County when it is released in April. Once the indexing is complete, users will be able to locate a person of interest among the 132 million names in the census. Once the indexing work is completed, its contents will be available for free for anyone wishing to access it.
Read MoreThe Challenges of Search
Revising the search query in the world of search is not new news. When a user is looking for results, there is little patience with vague results. Much like Google’s millions of results confuses searchers and often wears them down from continuing the search.
Read MoreTake Advantage of the Extra Time
Many healthcare organization are going forward with their conversion plans, even with the Health and Human Services’ delay of the ICD-10 compliance to be ready by October 1, 2013.
Read MoreQ-Sensei Chosen as Finalist for IT Innovations Award
Q-Sensei has been selected as one of three finalists for the 2012 Innovationspreis-IT (IT Innovations Award), “Knowledge Management” category. This particular category comprises solutions for business intelligence, knowledge management, knowledge engineering, idea management, and innovations management.
Read MoreNew Partnership Aims to Improve Findability
Cable One is partnering with Synacor for the launch of its TV Everywhere services and customer Web portal.
Read MorePredictions Positive for the Publishing World
Simba Information predicts publishing products and services will grow in 2012 by at least 3%. This increase will be led by the legal, science/technical and medical segments. The leading delivery method is print and electronic books closely followed by online services and abstracting/indexing.
Read MoreTEMIS and Agence France-Presse Expand Partnership
TEMIS and Agence France-Presse have announced that they are expanding their strategic partnership to deploy semantic enrichment on Agence France-Presse’s future editorial console.
Read MoreLeveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 9
As we continue the series on search, we are close to wrapping up with a more in-depth look behind the scenes of database management systems. Let’s take a quick look at behind the scenes. We want to connect the database management system to the thesaurus tool so that we can validate the terms and make sure that they are in good shape and, as people are adding records to the database, if they have any suggestions or candidates, we want to lock those in as well. The thesaurus tool will tell you which terms are actually correct, allow you to add, change, and delete, and otherwise manage the term base. Then the indexing is used to actually suggest indexing terms to records as they are loaded to the database management system. That system can be SharePoint, it could be a content management system, it could be a Documentum or a FileNet, or any other thing you want to use as a repository to manage your data. That is driven by the taxonomy.
Read MoreNew Website Emphasizes Concerns in the Healthcare World
ZirMed has made their mark as a provider of revenue cycle and information solutions for healthcare and now have launched www.StartStopICD10.com in response to the February 14th announcement by the Center of Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) of a re-examination of the ICD-10 timeline.
Read MoreMapping for ICD-10 Proceeding, Even if the Transition Isn’t
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has released a preview version of a SNOMED CT to ICD-10-CM map to automatically generate ICD-10-CM codes from clinical data entered into electronic health records (EHRs).
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