Taxodiary

January 2012

Of Taxonomies, Biology, and Moneyball

By Melody Smith|January 30th, 20122012-01-25T19:12:47-05:00

Baseball and biology are not commonly found in the same conceptual space. Neither do you find taxonomy associated with baseball, but in recent news these connections were made. Grant Bisbee, Editor, “Baseball Nation”, digresses into the arcane as he laments the coming of the “He’s In the Best Shape of His Life” season. This is the time of year baseball writers must assess the prospects for the coming season and clichés and hyperbole rein. The dubious practice of evaluating the physical condition of players runs rampant as spring training begins. With tongue in cheek Bisbee tries to shape a taxonomy to classify this spring ritual. His would be the taxonomy of the “In the Best-shape Stories”.

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More Software Accommodating ICD-10

By Melody Smith|January 30th, 20122012-01-29T23:10:27-05:00

ChartWise Medical Systems’s flagship product now provides support for both the current ICD-9 and upcoming ICD-10 coding systems. The ICD-10 transition deadline is scheduled for October 2013 and becoming more and more the subject of much discussion in the healthcare technology industry.

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Semantic Technology Can Be Even More Personal

By Melody Smith|January 30th, 20122012-01-29T23:09:19-05:00

Amidst all the predictions for 2012, many are musing on the role of the Internet in the coming year. Some believe the Internet will become much more personal by allowing users to create their own collection of education, entertainment, social environments and information when and where they choose.

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Liferay Community Edition 6.1

By Melody Smith|January 27th, 20122012-01-27T10:45:35-05:00

Liferay Community Edition V6.1 has been released. It brings a significant list of new features, including some social activity applications, search improvements, some contextual relationship enhancing and user defined lists.

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ICD-10 Training Available

By Melody Smith|January 26th, 20122012-01-27T10:56:40-05:00

The ICD-10 transition is underway in preparation for the October 2013 deadline. Many healthcare providers have begun the training process of the transition, which is very important.

Finding Data in a Secure System

By Melody Smith|January 26th, 20122012-01-25T17:42:23-05:00

Index Engines has launched a new custodian-based pricing model for qualified e-discovery Service Providers (ESP) and their clients. This enables the ESP access to high-speed indexing, de-duplication and other features.

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SharePoint Gives Findability

By Melody Smith|January 25th, 20122012-01-24T18:21:34-05:00

Access to information is something we take for granted more and more every day. The Internet has changed our ability to find information and locate data, close or remote. Smart phones have taken that availability to unimagined realms. In the corporate world, there are still two groups – those who have findability of their data and those who do not.

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New Year’s Resolution Fallout

By Melody Smith|January 25th, 20122012-01-24T18:19:45-05:00

The typical resolutions people make revolve around health, dieting, lifestyles and learning. Ironically, the same could be said for data management and integration, if they were in a position to set new goals for 2012.

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Hitachi Looks to the Clouds

By Melody Smith|January 25th, 20122012-01-24T18:17:23-05:00

Hitachi Data Systems has aligned their product and portfolio around a three-tiered strategy that focuses on the cloud. This consists of infrastructure cloud, content cloud and information cloud to provide a single virtualization platform for all data.

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January 2012

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