During the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) conference in Salt Lake City this week, a World Health Organization (WHO) official urged health care organizations to move forward with the transition to ICD-10 code sets.
Physicians are notoriously slow in implementing electronic health records (EHRs) within their office systems. The government has been feverishly trying to get doctors to use these systems for some time, but despite assurances of security and ultimately, cost savings, some physicians remain skeptical.
I am sure most physicians didn’t decide to go to medical school because they liked technology. Granted and especially recently, younger medical students are entering the field already assimilated to using technology in every aspect of their life so applying it in their daily professional life is no stretch. However, with the many advances in semantic technology and now the shift to ICD 10 coding, which will require more specific coding for reimbursements, physicians can no longer hide in the clinic and let the office manager fend for their selves.
The CIA is embracing semantic technology by investing an undisclosed, but apparently healthy, amount in semantic search technology and a technology that can turn a PC into a wireless network. In-Q-Tel is the CIA’s investment group and they are backing NetBase, developer of semantic search technology, and Connectify, developer of VPN software.
MetaVis Online is the first enterprise-class software as a service (SaaS) SharePoint migration solution to help migration to Office 365 SharePoint Online in a cost-effective manner.
Treato is a new source of medical information based on real life experiences of patients published over the social web. This new semantic-based technology was unveiled at the Health2.0 conference.
You would have to live under a rock if you haven’t heard one person, let alone dozens, complain about the recent changes on Facebook. You would think someone changed a critical part of their life…oh wait, I guess they did.
Business intelligence (BI) has proved valuable for providing insights to companies, allowing them to make better business decisions. It isn’t a new concept; BI has been around for many years. But with the changes and advancements in technology, more and more organizations are looking to the BI trends for direction.
Alfresco ECM has acquired semantic search capability by adding metadata detection and extraction technology from TEMIS.
Dachis Group’s new Social Business Index (SBI) measures the success of initiatives across over 26,000 brands from over 20,000 companies and over 100 million social accounts worldwide. The Index was built on top of Dachis Group's Social Business Intelligence Insight Platform and analyzes the effectiveness of strategies and tactics organizations employ to engage the market through social channels. Using natural language processing, semantic analysis, and machine learning algorithms, Dachis Group has built a machine learning engine.