Texthelp, a provider of software for the education sector, has incorporated ABBYY’s Cloud-based OCR (optical character recognition) technology to perform text recognition in its Snapverter app for Google Apps for Education users.
Is there any domain that has a broader mix of terminologies that need to be comprehended, or a greater need for system integration? Over the years doctors developed their own specialised languages and lexicons to help them store and communicate general medical knowledge and patient-related information efficiently. The promise of a global standard for Electronic Health Care Records is still years away.
Claiming that “forcing GPs to adopt half-baked e-health record [is] a dud idea,” the Australian Medical Association (AMA), has opposed government plans to link GP incentive payments to the adoption of the scheme.
Dell’s 10 year program to build an end-to-end enterprise software suite reached its culmination this week with the stunning $US67 billion takeover of EMC, rounding out the company’s portfolio with a compressive set of solutions for unstructured data management.
IBM has introduced new data discovery and question-and-answer capabilities for Watson Analytics that promises to make it easier for users to extract insights from their data. IBM also announced widespread adoption, with half a million professionals registering for the Watson data exploration and visualization service since its introduction less than a year ago.
