ICD 10 – It’s Closer Than It Seems

CMS – News Updates | May 10, 2013 Dates of Service: Is It ICD-9 or ICD-10? With the October 1, 2014, ICD-10 deadline approaching, you may be wondering how you will code a claim that you are submitting in October 2014 for a service that your practice provided in September 2014. Even if you submit [...]

Android or iPhone?

By John Edwards Contact All Articles, Law Technology News, April 24, 2013 Attorneys often find themselves operating in separate camps, such as plaintiff-defendant, prosecution-defense, civil-criminal, private-public and, perhaps most contentiously, Android-iPhone. While both iPhones and Androids deliver a smartphone experience that keeps attorneys connected wherever they go, each platform takes a unique and sometimes idiosyncratic approach to [...]

Election 2012 Lessons for the Business Use of Big Data

By William A. Tanenbaum All Articles, Law Technology News, November 12, 2012 The presidential election offers practical lessons to companies planning to profit from Big Data. The data-driven get-out-the-vote operations illustrate the four steps in Big Data: (i) data collection; (ii) analytics based on the data collected; (iii) business decisions based on the analytics; and [...]

How to Create SharePoint Tasks in Excel

By Mark Gerow All Articles, Law Technology News, November 6, 2012 Legal IT professionals know how challenging it can be to persuade busy lawyers to adopt new technologies. Where we might perceive a potential benefit, our colleagues may just see a distraction from their primary responsibility to serve the firm’s clients. This challenge was evident [...]

Reviews Pour In for Apple’s iPad Mini Tablet

By Monica Bay All Articles, Law Technology News, November 2, 2012 There’s been quite a lot of buzz about the recent debut of the new iPad and iPad mini from Apple Inc., so we thought we’d check out the mainstream technology press and legal blogs to see what they’re saying. CIO Insight offers another one [...]

Meaningful use Stage 2 crunch starts now

October 24, 2012 | Neil Versel – Healthcare IT News Feed INDIAN WELLS, CA – The federal government may have delayed the start of Stage 2 of meaningful use by a year, to 2014, but that does not mean healthcare providers should relax in their pursuit of the intended goals of the EHR incentive program, [...]

Physician practices concerned over ICD-10 readiness

September 05, 2012 | Erin McCann, Contributing Editor – Reposted ATLANTA, GA – Medical practices nationwide have expressed their concern regarding the impact of an ICD-10 switchover, according to a recent survey finding 96 percent of respondents concerned about the transition to the updated coding system. The Nuesoft Technologies sanctioned survey, “Attitudes Toward the Transition [...]

Could Microsoft Win the Tablet Wars?

Microsoft Surface may be intoxicating for lawyers, especially for its note-taking pen. By William Caraher All Articles, Law Technology News, October 16, 2012 The tablet wars are heating up with two new players: The iPad Mini (rumor is that it will be debuted later this month) and the Microsoft Surface Pro. While Apple Inc. continues [...]

Xerox Develops Automatic Redaction Tool

By Evan Koblentz ContactAll Articles, Law Technology News, October 11, 2012 Xerox Litigation Services is adding a free automatic redaction feature to its cloud-based e-discovery software, OmniX. The new tool searches for predetermined patterns in large sets of review documents and automatically redacts the results. Attorneys and legal professionals would work with Xerox Corp.’s staff [...]

5 benefits of natural language understanding for healthcare

October 09, 2012 | Benjamin Harris, New Media Producer – Healthcare IT News Ten years ago, Juergen Fritsch, chief scientist at Franklin, Tenn.-based M*Modal, was a postgraduate student at Carnegie Mellon, working on research for the government. “We were focused on a project eavesdropping calls,” says Fritsch. “What emotional state [people] were in, and so [...]