More Concerns for Healthcare Providers
Many healthcare providers have added concerns to the already stressful ICD 10 transition. Last week the Department of Health and Human Services and CMS issued final regulations on the medical loss ratio, which guarantees health insurers spend at least 80 percent (for individual and small group markets) or 85 percent (for large group markets) of consumer premiums on medical care.
Read MoreTaxonomies Key to Findability
Findability is key for any document management system. Without being able to find documents quickly and easily, valuable time and money can be lost. This is achieved by creating strong taxonomies.
Read MorePaper Submission – Empowering the Authors – Part III of VI
As we continue talking about semantic integration and more specifically, use cases; here is a different kind of use case. Somebody in this case is uploading an article (and you’ll see this again in other venues) in this case a conference paper to the American Society for Information Science and Technology site. A prospective author uploads their paper, they fill in the blanks as appropriate, and up pops a list of appropriate taxonomy terms. The author, the submitting person, can then check off the list of terms they think are appropriate to their paper. Then the paper is saved, already indexed. They will have already indexed their paper, which saves people a lot of time. In any kind of venue, folks can do their own indexing.
Read MoreRelevant Search Results
Search has changed over the past few years. No longer is it just straight forward finding of your entered terms. It has changed to a relevance-powered search and retail marketing is the driving force.
Read MoreImproving Content and Classifications
Wielding SAS Text Analytics helps to reduce manual tagging, improves search results and supports ad revenue generation. This improved digital content performance is achieved by indexing, tagging and classifying data so that the ultimate in findability is achieved.
Read MoreNew App from National Library of Medicine
A new app combines semantic knowledge resources and technologies, such as a biomedical knowledge base, a semantic search engine, a distributed search engine, and a variety of smart content analysis and discovery services. The NLMplus can concurrently access 60 National Library of Medicine (NLM) databases, with a simple Google/Bing like user interface.
Read MoreICD-10 Resources Available
The Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) has released a free set of tools to aid in converting the new ICD-10 code sets. The ICD-10 PlayBook features ICD-10 report card software from Yakima, a speaker’s bureau and white papers and Web seminars from a variety of resources.
Read MoreGoogle Books Has Metadata Problem
Two years ago, Google Books was called out for their poor indexing and search results by a Berkeley professor. Google Books’ fumbling search facility was a real challenge for researchers. Though Google offered to correct any errors that were brought to its attention, the professor doesn’t feel it is any better. Doing his own research, he continues to come across errors similar to those he brought to their attention two years ago.
Read MoreTaxonomy + Social Media = Findability
Social media seems to be factored into every area of technology these days. Taxonomy is no different. Having a defined taxonomy helps promote collaboration and connections by allowing people to quickly match content with an established set of defined keywords and terms.
Read MoreRemedyMD Releases New Databases
RemedyMD plans to launch the Mosaic Lymphoma and Mosiac Leukemia registries at the upcoming American Society of Hematology annual meeting and exposition December 10-13 in San Diego, California.
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