Posts Tagged ‘Indexing’
1940 Census Indexing Completed
All 50 states of the 1940 Census Community Project have been indexed and uploaded to the FamilySearch.org web site. The last five states were Massachusetts, New Jersey, Michigan, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Indexes for Guam, Panama Canal, and the Virgin Islands have been posted as well. The last items on the project’s list, the territories of…
Read MoreConcerns Over Reimbursement Risks
There is a push from healthcare organization leaders for insight into what the potential reimbursement risks will be in t he new ICD-10 coding classification system. Providers are beginning to take a hard look at revenue impacts hidden within the ICD-10 conversion and what they will mean for healthcare.
Read MoreIndia Digitizing Government Documents
Retired IAS officer V Balasubramaniam has been appointed as the court commissioner to oversee indexing, scanning and digitization of revenue records. This news from Bangledesh indicates some progression in this region to making public records easier to access.
Read MorePreparations Involve More Than Technology
Healthcare providers are working towards the ICD-10 coding transition and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released recommendations of what the communication plan for the ICD-10 transition should contain.
Read MoreGoing Digital and Green
Pursuing their commitment to become a paperless facility, Galway Clinic has already converted many paper documents into electronic records. To handle the portion of their enterprise that requires scanning and indexing, they chose Access Enterprise Forms Management to capture, index and store the data.
Read MorePreparing for the Test
Edifecs’ facilitated a discussion around challenges and best approaches for the ICD-10 testing. This project is quite possibility the toughest one most professionals have faced due to the complexity and the potential impact.
Read MoreCritical Questions Regarding ICD-10
With the many decisions healthcare providers are being asked to make in preparation for the ICD-10 coding classification transition, it seems it would be beneficial to ask software vendors some very applicable and important questions.
Read MoreOrganizing Data Semantically
Research and Markets has added John Wiley and Sons Ltd’s new book, “Semantic Web and Model-Driven Engineering” to their playlist. The book lifts up the relationship of semantic web and model-driven software development (MDSD).
Read MoreOnline Training Available to Prepare for ICD-10
The American Health Information Association (AHIMA) has provided new ICD-10-CM/PCS online coder training courses to help healthcare organizations prepare for the ICD-10 coding classification transition.
Read MoreInvesting in Taxonomies
We have written many times about the massive amount of data being created in this digital era. One additional problem in this chaotic whirlwind is the naming by random employees or users of the data. This inconsistent approach makes it difficult to locate and retrieve critical files once they are saved into the hodgepodge naming system.
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