By Melody Smith|December 29th, 20112011-12-28T22:42:45-05:00
Social media at its very core was designed to make users want to follow people. It is all about making connections. However, with the influx of data coming through social media, there is a trend in social media users where they are no longer “following’ people and organizations in an effort to limit the clutter and chatter that is coming from their social networks. Doesn’t this defeat the point of social media?
By Melody Smith|December 28th, 20112011-12-27T22:00:34-05:00
Healthcare reimbursement is a complex system as it stands. With the new evolving transition of the medical coding to the ICD-10 classification system, it will be even more complex.
By Melody Smith|December 28th, 20112011-12-27T21:58:55-05:00
The Social Media Command Center from InTTENSITY is a service software that provides access for users to view their search/filter information and utilize it to make decisions based on the social media information found on the Internet.
By Melody Smith|December 28th, 20112011-12-27T21:57:31-05:00
Tagged has announced an acquisition of Topicmarks. Tagged is the social discovery service and Topicmarks uses semantic engine to summarize content. The combination of these two should be interesting.
By Melody Smith|December 27th, 20112011-12-26T20:38:00-05:00
There is much automation in the medical world, both in treatment and billing. One of those that were hardest for physicians to accept was clinical pathways. A clinical pathway is a common medical treatment for a disease and care developed by one of the most appropriate care plans. These are used as management models in an effort to improve health care quality and to control medical costs. Standardized electronic clinical pathways use ontologies as shared conceptual models or knowledge organization.
By Melody Smith|December 27th, 20112011-12-26T20:39:33-05:00
Recently at the Le Web – an Internet event in Europe, Google guru, Eric Schmidt spoke about the future being social, local and mobile. What does this mean? More Facebook? More smartphone apps? More Foursquare?
By Melody Smith|December 27th, 20112011-12-26T20:40:53-05:00
EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) will soon contain content from Marquis Who’s Who. The new agreement will add metadata from the Marquis Who’s Who database into the Base Index of EDS and provide seamless access and full text searching for mutual customers.
By Melody Smith|December 26th, 20112011-12-14T16:26:37-05:00
A completely different kind of use is term analytics. We have talked a lot of text analytics in the past, where people take great big full text files and they run them through a lot of Bayesian, neural net, and latent semantic indexing kind of engines to figure out how to compare things. You could do that using a taxonomy instead and still figure out the strengths of the organization; what are the strengths in the publications; what are the emerging topics in your areas. You use people’s own data to address these questions and figure out the answers.
By Melody Smith|December 26th, 20112011-12-25T22:40:14-05:00
ICD-9 has been the system used for almost 40 years. Coming in October 2013, things will change. The new ICD-10 coding classification system will be in effect with five times the amount of medical codes for healthcare providers to use and diagnosis codes with more digits. Before the billing systems can accommodate the expanded field length for diagnoses, a new format system for electronic billing needs to take place first. This is scheduled to happen in just a few days on January 1, 2012.
By Melody Smith|December 26th, 20112011-12-25T22:38:27-05:00
Vogue magazine has now opened up its digital archives to researchers. The 120 years of fashion history has been scanned from paper and turned into a digital data mine, completely indexed.
