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October 2011

The Impact of Apple

By Melody Smith|October 10th, 20112011-10-10T20:05:27-04:00

The passing of Steve Jobs gives us a chance to reflect on the business in general and, of course, how it affects us. The many incredible things he did and his inventions are very well covered in other more appropriate venues. The world changed significantly on his watch and he drove others to make amazing strides. We always admired the Apple systems and in fact were the first commercial installation of Apple IIe's in (at least in New Mexico) 1980. We bought 22 of the 48K main memory machines with single sided floppy 5.25 inch drives holding 512 K of data at one time. We had one machine with two floppy drives where we would copy the data for safe back up before transferring it to 9 track 1600 bpi tape on the Wang system for eventual conversion and delivery to the clients.

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ICD 10 Transition Deadline Stirs Activity

By Melody Smith|October 10th, 20112011-10-10T21:10:13-04:00

In the continual race to beat the deadline of the ICD 10-transition has various companies scrambling for assistance. Elsevier/MC Strategies will be working with Care Communications to develop an ICD-10 transition resource, and Anthelio has formed a strategic partnership with MedQuist Holdings. Health insurance giant, Humana is incorporating Interactions Corporation's voice portal technology into its Medicare Part D benefits enrollment program.

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Open Source Giant Celebrates Anniversary

By Melody Smith|October 10th, 20112011-10-09T21:05:08-04:00

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is celebrating the 10th anniversary of Apache Lucene. First developed in 1997, the Lucene information retrieval software entered the ASF as a sub-project of the Apache Jakarta project in 2001, and soon became a standalone, Top-Level Project (TLP) in 2005.

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Semantic Search Powers Robot

By Melody Smith|October 7th, 20112011-10-06T17:36:42-04:00

The clip of the robot serving food seemed to appear on every site I visited today. I guess our fascination of life as The Jetson’s has not diminished with our youth. Robotic technology continues to advance and the PR2 robot is a good example. Not only is it smart enough to be able to fetch food from the fridge, but with the little help of a technology known as semantic search, it is even clever enough to bring you a sandwich, despite not knowing where or exactly what it is.

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Semantic Technology Used in Epidemiologic Study

By Melody Smith|October 7th, 20112011-10-06T17:38:56-04:00

The Millennium Cohort Study is a longitudinal cohort study designed in the late 1990s to evaluate how military service may affect long-term health. To perform these analyses, Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) was applied to a broad open-ended question asking the participant if there were any additional health concerns.

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Go With the ICD 10 Flow

By Melody Smith|October 6th, 20112011-10-05T17:51:35-04:00

During the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) conference in Salt Lake City this week, a World Health Organization (WHO) official urged health care organizations to move forward with the transition to ICD-10 code sets.

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Metalogix Meets the Need for Speed

By Melody Smith|October 6th, 20112011-10-05T17:53:05-04:00

Metalogix Software released Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint 5.0 as a solution to the ever-increasing growth of SharePoint farms, a situation that has only been around since the launch of SharePoint 2010.

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Alfresco Releases New Platform

By Melody Smith|October 6th, 20112011-10-05T17:54:28-04:00

Open source content management provider Alfresco has released their platform, Alfresco Community 4, at JavaOne.

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SharePoint Architecture Webinar

By Melody Smith|October 5th, 20112011-10-04T22:03:25-04:00

Continuing with the SLA Taxonomy Division’s webinar series, the Why Information Architecture on SharePoint webinar will be held Wednesday, October 12th at 1:00 p.m. EST (10:00 a.m. PST).

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October 2011

Provided by Access Innovations, Inc.

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