Taxodiary – Health

Medical Ontologies

By Melody Smith|October 30th, 2015|metadata, News, ontology|Comments Off on Medical Ontologies

There is a lot going on in healthcare technology these days. Between the Affordable Care Act, ICD-10 coding classification transition, and electronic health records […]

Technology Predictions for the New Year

By admin|October 26th, 2015|News, Technology|Comments Off on Technology Predictions for the New Year

Every year at the Gartner Symposium, a list of top technology trends are predicted for the year to come. These aren’t meant to be […]

Access Innovations and Access Integrity Complete ICD-10 Readiness Tool

By admin|October 5th, 2015|Access Insights, Featured, indexing|Comments Off on Access Innovations and Access Integrity Complete ICD-10 Readiness Tool

Access Innovations, Inc. is pleased to announce the delivery of a comprehensive ICD-10 readiness tool for their Access Integrity division.

Access Integrity was formed in […]

Challenging Day for Healthcare

By Melody Smith|October 1st, 2015|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Challenging Day for Healthcare

One of the biggest challenges facing the healthcare industry, in addition to the ICD-10 transition, is coordination among their many business partners. Providers, payers, and […]

IntegraCoder® Version 2.0, Powered by Data Harmony®, Now Available Through Major EMR companies

By Melody Smith|July 13th, 2015|Access Insights, Featured, indexing|Comments Off on IntegraCoder® Version 2.0, Powered by Data Harmony®, Now Available Through Major EMR companies

IntegraCoder Version 2.0, the medical coding application developed by Access Integrity, a division of Access Innovations, Inc., and coding experts Find-A-Code, is now available […]

ICD-10 and Taxonomies

By Melody Smith|June 29th, 2015|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on ICD-10 and Taxonomies

In Canada, the implementation of ICD-10 caused an approximate 50% drop in productivity in rates of coding in the health profession. Reports show that […]

Fighting Over Data

By Melody Smith|June 1st, 2015|metadata, News, Technology|Comments Off on Fighting Over Data

Wearable technology continues to grow in leaps and bounds. Whether wearable digital devices are monitoring your heart rate, your activity, or your actual location […]

Google It

By Melody Smith|March 4th, 2015|News, search|Comments Off on Google It

Google has started on an adventure that could change health care and medicine as well as add a whole new avenue of work. Google’s Head of Life Sciences, Andrew Conrad, recently announced that the company is building a nanoparticle platform that could one day be used to continuously measure a person’s health through ingestible nanoparticles.

The Value of Your Data

By Melody Smith|July 10th, 2014|Autoindexing, metadata, News, semantic|Comments Off on The Value of Your Data

Data is everywhere, but in the healthcare industry it is fast becoming the largest producer. Combine that with the many other initiatives in health information technology going on – electronic health records, ICD-10 coding classification transition, Affordable Health Care, Meaningful Use – they need whatever help they can find.

Metadata Tagging Improves Collaboration

By Melody Smith|June 26th, 2014|metadata, News|Comments Off on Metadata Tagging Improves Collaboration

Behavioral health has historically been an exception to the electronic sharing of data due to federal privacy rules regarding potentially sensitive information.