November 2011

More Preparations for the ICD-10 Transition

By |November 2nd, 2011

Care Communications has announced the start of a new ICD-10 Documentation and Financial Risk Assessment Services designed to assess clinical documentation problems and financial risks for healthcare providers.

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Sentiment Analysis Symposium is Next Week

By |November 2nd, 2011

Adam Pease of Rearden Commerce will present an overview of ontology as it relates to sentiment analysis and content extraction at the Sentiment Analysis Symposium.

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Indexing is Key to Findability

By |November 2nd, 2011

A team of librarians from regional branches of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine have come to the Radiology Society of North America's (RNSA) annual conference in Chicago to host educational sessions on helping clinicians easily find reference material. This has taken place for fifteen years and that continues for RNSA 2011 next month.

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Top 10 Lists

By |November 1st, 2011

The impending ICD-10 implementation landed on one author’s list of things that should be keeping healthcare IT officers up at night. No surprise really considering they are under the two year mark before all transition and training needs to be implemented to the new ICD-10 medical coding program.

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The Benefits of Open Source

By |November 1st, 2011

Apache developers started back in 2003 to develop an open source web search engine. After much work turning their vision into reality and many features such as capabilities for crawling the web and adding a web database for computing, storing and analyzing all web pages discovered, the project – named nutch – went in the Apache Incubator.

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Super Database Based on Ontology

By |November 1st, 2011

Researchers at the RIKEN BioResource Center are developing a system that will be able to bring together all of the information saved in databases around the world to be accessible from a single terminal.

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October 2011

What’s in a name?

By |October 31st, 2011

Juliet: "What's in a name? That which we call a rose, By any other name would smell as sweet." Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2) True, but try finding the right document set for your current project by sniffing them out from within a database of 8 million similar smelling documents. This approach is all too common, very time consuming, and unreliable leaving you with aromatic, unpalatable results.

Back To School

By |October 31st, 2011

If you are one of those people who love to learn something new all the time or maybe someone who enjoys going to school as an adult professional, this might be right up your alley. Free university classes - yes, I said free. From Stanford School of Engineering, an experiment in distributed education that offers "Machine Learning" free and online to students worldwide during the fall of 2011.

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The Evolving Librarian

By |October 31st, 2011

Those in the “biz” have been fully aware of the gradual demise of the traditional librarian in our industry. Traditional roles as reference clerks […]

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Path to Innovation

By |October 28th, 2011

What is innovation management? It is similar to content management or content sharing. Maybe it should be called content liberation software since sharing knowledge is the acceptable behavior. How should a company approach innovation since it rarely just happens?

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