By Melody Smith|January 24th, 20122012-01-23T21:42:53-05:00
HCPro, Inc. will be bringing together leading industry experts on coding and ICD-10 for three days of presentations and discussion, from February 29-March 2nd, 2012. The JustCoding Virtual Summit: ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS is an online event and features two educational tracks: one for HIM Directors and Coding Supervisors, and one for Inpatient and Outpatient Coders.
By Melody Smith|January 24th, 20122012-01-23T21:41:24-05:00
North Illinois University Libraries have launched a new search service this semester. Primo incorporates the advanced developments in search engine technology that seeks to provide an easier and more intuitive process for locating academic literature.
By Melody Smith|January 24th, 20122012-01-23T17:21:48-05:00
The second Digging into Data Challenge competition announced the winners who promoted innovative humanities and social science research using large-scale data analysis. Fourteen teams representing Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States were the recipients of grants to investigate how computational techniques can be applied to "big data" to change the nature of humanities and social sciences research.
By Melody Smith|January 23rd, 20122012-01-22T19:50:41-05:00
Access Innovations will host the the eighth annual Data Harmony® Users Group (DHUG) meeting this coming February 7-9 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The meeting will focus on helping users get the most from their investment in the Data Harmony knowledge management software suite, which helps users organize information resources based on a well-built and systematically applied taxonomy or thesaurus.
By Melody Smith|January 23rd, 20122012-01-22T21:27:10-05:00
One blogger compared the impending ICD-10 coding classification transition to the movie, The Perfect Storm. As challenging as the process is, I don’t know that it will be as tragic and dramatic as that. It will, however, be one of the most important milestones in healthcare technology.
By Melody Smith|January 23rd, 20122012-01-22T21:29:14-05:00
Smartlogic has released their latest version of Semaphore. Version 3.3 offers enhanced enterprise search and organize enterprise metadata as they provide the capability for integration with SharePoint 2010.
By Melody Smith|January 20th, 20122012-01-19T19:38:43-05:00
There are still some people out there who think the Internet is just a fad and will go by the way of 8-track tapes and bomb shelters. The number of these skeptics is decreasing, but I can say (proudly or not) that I know and am related to one in particular. My sister, the teacher, believes technology is causing the demise of our children and their education. Now, I won’t go that far. She is on the verge of creating her own version of “The Village.”
By Melody Smith|January 20th, 20122012-01-19T19:37:16-05:00
Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services (NKOS) recently reported that ISO 25964-1, the new international standard for thesauri and interoperability, has recently been published and supersedes the well-worn ISO 2788 and ISO 5964. We learned of this in the press release titled, “New international thesaurus standard published.” found on the NKOS site.
By Melody Smith|January 19th, 20122012-01-18T16:24:25-05:00
Health Language, Inc has launched a new version of its provider friendly terminology (PFT) to include clinician friendly synonyms and more than 100,000 attributes for ICD-10-CM.
By Melody Smith|January 19th, 20122012-01-18T16:25:44-05:00
A London teenager has designed a new iPhone app which summarizes the content of web pages. This entrepreneurial pubescent created Summly while studying for exams and using Google for research. In an effort to make the process more efficient and informative, Summly provides a content summary of search results with a quick snapshot of the most relevant information relating to a story.
