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Indexing Giant Re-Opens Genealogy Center

By Melody Smith | October 30, 2012

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has announced the re-opening of the Family History Center located in Lawton, Oklahoma. Genealogy has always been encouraged by the Church and the Family History Library maintains the world’s largest collection of microfilmed genealogical records in the world and has made it all digital.

Semantic Content Enrichment Chosen

By Melody Smith | October 26, 2012

Berlin publisher De Gruyter has chosen a semantic content enrichment platform from Temis. Luxid, their premier product, works to ensure smooth delivery of content.

Streamlining the ICD-10 Challenge

By Melody Smith | October 16, 2012

Healthcare providers are looking for ways to streamline the coding process during the ICD-10 coding classification system. The challenge of the transition includes the number of codes in the new ICD-10 system – five times the number of codes in the prior set.

Managing Healthcare Data Has Its Challenges

By Melody Smith | October 11, 2012

Certify Data Systems has released its next generation HealthLogix HIE platform. This solution delivers on the promise of an aggregated patient view from all healthcare encounters across the community.

Social Media Data Continues to Grow

By Melody Smith | October 10, 2012 |

Sysomos is known for their social media monitoring and analytics. Now they can brag about reaching an important milestone – the indexing of 100,000,000,000 (one hundred billion) social posts. This interesting news was brought to us by MarketWatch in their article, “Social Media Monitoring Leader Sysomos Indexes 100,000,000,000th Post.” Sysomos collects social media data in real…

It Is Like Herding Cats

By Melody Smith | October 9, 2012

The web is full of unstructured data. There may be a few segments falling in line with semantic standards, but they are few and far between. The focus of search engines is on HTML but that leaves much of the data undiscovered.

The End Result Will Help

By Melody Smith | October 9, 2012

Sometimes with all the anxiety and business around the ICD-10 coding classification transition, we forget that this will undoubtedly result in better insight into individual patient conditions and the wealth of data that will be available will improve the efficiency of healthcare delivery.

Photo Storage and Indexing Need Taxonomy

By Melody Smith | October 4, 2012

A new cloud-based photo sharing service has been launched by Canon. Project 1709 enables users to store and access images regardless of where they have been saved. This works due to a special tagging and indexing function.

Training is Key for a Successful Transition

By Melody Smith | October 3, 2012

Now that there is a firm deadline in place, it is time to start training to meet the October 2014 coding classification transition goal. Considering there will be five times the number of diagnostic codes, the training should be comprehensive and complete.

Why Do We Index?

By Melody Smith | October 1, 2012

We index, or “tag”, using the taxonomy to improve precision. In part, we are doing that by defining the scope of the term that we use. So, we have a term that represents a concept but that term might be used for several concepts. We are defining in which way we are using the term ‘mercury’ within this corpus of information. We define the scope of the term, and that improves the precision.