Ready or Not?
A recent KLAS survey revealed that only 9% of respondents were more than halfway through their ICD-10 readiness preparations. This is a little disconcerting when you think about the timeline and the millions of dollars this could take for the large and some mid-size facilities.
Read MoreNew Investors for Geo-Social Technology
A new technology start up, Me Sixty has found investors to help support further expansion of its geo-social indexing technology (social media created with mobile devices and tagged to locations).
Read MoreWebinar: Drilling Down to the Challenges of a SharePoint Taxonomy Implementation
Continuing with the SLA Taxonomy Division’s webinar series, the next webinar is titled “Drilling down to the Challenges of a SharePoint taxonomy implementation” and will be held Wednesday, November 9th at 1:00 p.m. EST (10:00 a.m. PST).
Read MoreIs The Library Of Congress’ Data Carrier Out Of Date?
The Working Group of the Future of Bibliographic Control wrote that the Library community’s data carrier, MARC, is “based on forty-year-old techniques for data management and is out of step with programming styles of today.” This interesting information comes from News & Announcements on the Library of Congress site in the post titled, “A Bibliographic Framework for the Digital Age.”
Read MoreFaith Demonstrated in Taxonomy
The debate over faith and a belief in a higher power managed to bring a perfect example of taxonomy to clarity. This interesting, thoughtful and somewhat humorous topic was inspired by the article, “Haught v. Coyne: The Debate of the Century (Not)” on Evolution News and Views.
Read MoreGoogle Can Now Search Facebook Comments
A new and fairly significant development from the social media world is that Google is now searching and indexing public comments made on Facebook. This has some people and business concerned due to page ranking implications.
Read MoreIndexing People with People
Search indexing company PeekYou has taken a look at the fifty biggest names in gaming and assigned each a
PeekScore. They wanted to recognize the developers and talent involved in this industry.
Semantic Technology Company Sees Germany as Prime Market
Semantic Web and Big Data Technology company, PolarLake, has opened a new office in Frankfurt, Germany. Known for addressing the challenges of financial and reference data management, they apparently see the German market ripe for development.
Read MoreMore Preparations for the ICD-10 Transition
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.
Read MoreSentiment Analysis Symposium is Next Week
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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