Posts Tagged ‘Indexing’
Taxonomy About Spending, or Not
It has been awhile since I shared a unique taxonomy with you and this one certainly caught my eye, for many reasons. My mother and sister are notorious for doing anything to save a dollar. I am quite often convinced they spend more trying to save than they save, but I wouldn’t dare say that to them. So this interesting taxonomy was found on Direct Marketing in their article, “Infographic: The Taxonomy of the Penny-Pincher.”
Read MoreMaking Recordkeeping Robust
Infolinx System Solutions has been chosen by the Virginia Department of Social Services (VDSS) – Division of Child Support Enforcement (DCSE) for their enterprise physical records management software, Infolinx WEB Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS). This move will be taking their records management from spreadsheets to a robust, browser-based solution.
Read MoreGovernment Recordkeeping Falls Short
A recent report finds that nearly half of federal agency records and management officials felt they would not be able to meet the December 31, 2013, deadline to digitize and streamline records management practices.
Read MoreTaxonomies to the Rescue
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) continues and day-to-day operations are changing for many healthcare providers. For example, hospitals must now shift their patient records systems to electronic medical records, which introduces additional challenges during an already stressful time. This interesting and relevant news was found on ebizQ in their article, “Taxonomy Aids Navigation of Turbulent Healthcare Environment.”
Read MoreFree Trial Offer for Find-A-Code
Find-A-Code is offering a free 7-day trail of its newest coding tool called Code-A-Note. Code-A-Note utilizes concept extractor software that analyzes the volumes of information contained in an electronic medical record’s (EMR) text fields and provides the professional coder with highly relevant ICD-9, CPT, and HCPCS coding suggestions. Find-A-Code’s digital coding libraries then apply additional filters and data resources to the selected codes including a claim scrubbing feature. With the pending implementation of ICD-10 in October of 2014, Code-A-Note will offer its users unique documentation training opportunities as well as a coding tool. Code-A-Note was designed to decrease the amount of time that medical coders spend reading a patient’s encounter note. The software analyzes the note in its entirety to produce relevant codes.
Read MoreMachine Assisted Indexing Trumps
The ECRI Institute Patient Safety Organization has created a health IT hazard reporting system to make it easier to see trends. The Health IT Hazard Manager was funded by Abt Associates with the ECRI Institute and Geisinger Health System’s Patient Safety Institute. The project incorporates Agency for Healthcare Research Quality (AHRQ) common formats and a tested, standardized taxonomy to index the content of a central repository of data.
Read MoreGoing Digital Worthy, But Challenging
Despite their instructions, almost half (46 percent) of federal agency records and information management professionals do not believe the presidential directive for digital records are realistic and obtainable. This came just days before the end of 2013.
Read MoreChoose Your Partners Carefully
Law firms are always looking for a seamless and efficient process and/or product to manage their digital and physical records. The RM Suite has been designed with law firm information governance in mind. As documents and emails are saved to eDOCS DM, they are automatically categorized and electronically filed in RM using the appropriate Client/Matter File Plan and Retention Schedule. This interesting information was found on Heraldonline.com in their article, “Matrix Logic Announces Records Management Legal Solution Suite for OpenText eDOCS RM at ILTA 2013 Conference.”
Read MoreProviding a Smooth Integration
The challenge of managing information so that findability is possible with ease and speed is made more difficult with regulatory, legal and organizational requirements. In order to address records management requirements in a way that works for users and records managers, Alfresco has released its latest Records Management module (v2.1), along with the next version of Alfresco One (v4.2).
Read MoreThe Government Impact
Budget cuts, both domestic and governmental, manage to touch every part of our lives at one time or another. Yesterday, the United States government shut down all non-critical services due to the inability to settle on a budget. No real surprise there, as they haven’t been able to agree on anything since, well, ever. Interestingly, this article from earlier in the year in The New York Times, “As Works Flood In, Nation’s Library Treads Water“, lifts up challenges from the federal cuts for the current fiscal year.
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