ICD-10 Compliance In Time

Verisk Health has expanded the DxCG Risk Solutions suite to include greater predictive power and reporting capabilities. Now the product is compliant with the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) system. This comes in time to meet the October 2013 deadline to switch from the ICD- 9 classification system to the new ICD-10-CM.

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Taxonomy Takes to the Air

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the European Commission (EC) have agreed on the use of a single repository and common categorization taxonomy to report all aviation accidents and incidents worldwide in order to improve aviation safety.

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Semantic Risks

In a recent issue focusing on risk one article in Bloomberg Businessweek made the statement, “Such semantics may feel like distinctions without a difference. For underwriters in the specialty market of political-violence insurance, though, they’re crucial.” The semantic distinctions had to do with the labeling of political “protests” in Egypt and elsewhere in the Arab world. I put “protests” in quotes to draw attention to the issue of semantics and its impact on insurance and risk assessment.

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New Medical Coding Changes the Rules of the Playground

Few areas of healthcare are exempt from staring at a deadline that though two years away, isn’t feeling way too close for comfort. To prepare for the change from ICD-9 to ICD-10 providers aren’t the only ones impacted by the coding switch. Vendors and payers are also feeling the crunch.

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Labeling or Profiling?

Labeling people based on behaviors is not a new technology or even behavior. This has been done since the beginning of time. However, with the advancement of semantic technology and the flood of data available, it has become overwhelming to discern a simplified approach to organization.

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Chocolate as a Teaching Tool

Fast Company’s Co.Design shared their Infographic of the Day, “A Visual Taxonomy Of Every Chocolate Candy, Ever”, and it made me smile. Not just for the chocolate and food aspect, though I freely admit both of those categories make me smile, but for the nostalgia it brings to mind.

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Semantic Enrichment Solutions

TEMIS has launched the next generation of its flagship semantic content enrichment solution, Luxid(R). This semantic tagging platform automatically extracts relevant information and identifies relationships residing in unstructured data and facilitates links between similar and related documents.

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Alfresco Includes Social Media in Their Latest Release

Alfresco has released their latest community version of their platform at JaveOne, Alfresco Community 4, with many new features. Among those features are an improved user interface and tooling to allow support of popular technology trends, such as cloud computing and social media.

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New Patent for Indexing System

Decernis receives new patent for an indexing system and method to identify and validate chemicals, foods, and commodities in documents and databases. This innovation enables a user to find any reference to a food, chemical, or contaminant in any language across the Internet.

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