Hlava Interview: New Medical Integrity Services
September 15, 2011
On September 14, 2011, I interviewed Margie Hlava, one of the world’s leading experts in the fields of content indexing, taxonomies, and controlled vocabularies. In our third interview, I probed Ms. Hlava, the founder of Access Innovations, one of the key service and software firms in the information retrieval sector. She was attracted to indexing as a consequence of her undergraduate work in the field of biology and its classification methodology.
In this podcast, Ms. Hlava discusses:
- How automated systems like MAI and other Access Innovations’ systems detect new terminology, entities, and synonyms
- The challenge of high volume indexing and tagging of medical documents related to billing. The indexing makes it easier to identify improper or erroneous payments as part of the US government’s “medical integrity programs”
- The close relationship between indexing and content processing cost control. Flawed indexing contributes to search inefficiency. Governance projects, which are really thinly disguised reworking of indexing and tagging, often cost significantly more than a process that makes indexing part of the pre-planning and pre-launch work plan.
The audio program is available without charge on the ArnoldIT.com Web site at this link. The program was recorded on September 14, 2011. More information about Access Innovations is available at the firm’s Web site. Be sure to take a look at Taxodiary, the company’s highly regarded Web log about indexing and taxonomy related topics.
Stephen E Arnold, September 15, 2011
Sponsored by Pandia.com, publishers of The New Landscape of Enterprise Search
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