Indexing is Key to Findability
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.
Read MoreTop 10 Lists
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.
Read MoreThe Benefits of Open Source
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.
Read MoreSuper Database Based on Ontology
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.
Read MoreWhat’s in a name?
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.
Read MoreBack To School
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.
Read MoreThe Evolving Librarian
Those in the “biz” have been fully aware of the gradual demise of the traditional librarian in our industry. Traditional roles as reference clerks and human cataloging machines are slowly disappearing or morphing into digital knowledge experts. KM World brought this topic to our attention in their article, “The Future of the The Future: The…
Read MorePath to Innovation
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?
Read MoreBeat the Clock
Two years out from the deadline, less than 10 percent of healthcare providers are more than halfway ready for the ICD-10 implementation. The deadline for the conversion is Oct. 1, 2013.
Read MoreAccess Innovations Receives U.S. Patent for Unique MAIChem™ Software Search Method
Software Provides Fast, In-Depth, Broad and Consistently Accurate Searches of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry Data
Access Innovations, Inc., a leader in data integrity and content creation, has announced it has been awarded a U.S. Patent No. 8,046,212 for MAIChem™, a software-based method for searching chemical names in one or more text-containing documents that have been loaded into computer memory.
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