December 2011

What Will the Next Year Bring in Technology?

By |December 20th, 2011

As we near the end of another year, many professionals are making predictions about the coming year and recapping the highlights of the previous year. Among the ten technology and business trends that will affect businesses and consumers alike in the coming year, one writer predicts a more semantic web.

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Authors at a Place – Part IV of VI

By |December 19th, 2011

Continuing with our series on semantic integration, let's discuss Authors. You can take a list of authors by place. Identifying marks or spots represent clusters of people who have published on a particular topical area. You take the author, their subject profile, and then attach to their address, the latitude and longitude of that address, and you can put them on a map. These kinds of match-ups are pretty cool.

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Three Challenges Healthcare Providers Are Facing

By |December 19th, 2011

ICD-10 has almost become a dirty word for healthcare providers. In an recent interview, Kevin Weinstein, MBA, vice president of revenue cycle management technology company ZirMed, discussed three challenges facing physicians in regards to ICD-10 implementation.

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Attivio Powering New Platform for Life Sciences

By |December 19th, 2011

Attivio has been selected by Relay Technology Management to power a new platform that addresses the urgent need for stakeholders to capture, access, compare and track comprehensive scientific, clinical, transactional, and business information.

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Don’t Just Jump In

By |December 16th, 2011

Enterprise content management (ECM) is not a cookie cutter product. What works in one organization may not work in another. There are factors that can help guide content management implementation and keep the system functional.

New Search Engine More than Another Google

By |December 16th, 2011

Another new search engine? Yes that is doubt you read in my words. It seems there are new ones popping up all the time lately, and it is not like there is a real need out there, i.e. Google, Bing, etc. However, the latest contender was developed by Massimo Marchiori, who also created HyperSearch. The new product, Volunia, will be available in 12 languages when it does launch, but the creator promises it to be different in many ways, and not just another Google.

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The Fear of Technology

By |December 15th, 2011

It is a fear people have had from the beginning of the technology boom. Actually, it probably started at the beginning of the industrial revolution. People fear that workers will be replaced by machinery and technology. Now, one professor is predicting that rapid advancement in technology will, within a couple of years, eliminate the need for some workers and leave the traditional workplace looking for different.

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The Challenge of Medical Coding

By |December 15th, 2011

Atlantic Health Solutions plans to improve their radiology practices revenue cycle procedures. This comes at a time when reimbursements are at an all time low and concerns that it won’t improve with the ICD-10 coding transition looming on the horizon.

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Gift Giving Idea

By |December 15th, 2011

Still looking for that perfect gift for the historian or librarian in your life? How about a mobile scanner? This fun and useful product from Flip runs on four AA batteries and has a 2 GB SD memory card installed. The appearance is deceptive with only a 6.5x10 flatbed scanner, but it runs well and the quality of the images stood up to various forms of testing, according to one writer.

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The Technology Divide

By |December 14th, 2011

Speaking about knowledge organizations and referring to monopolies like cable companies, one writer lifts up the challenges of the Internet and the challenges some have of accessing the Internet.

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