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Efficacy Analysis of Technology Approaches Toward Auto-assignment of Clinical Codes to the US Patient Medical Record


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Authors
Milind Godbole & Anuja Agarwal
Publishing Date
01-May-2020
volume
1
Issue
1
Pages
423–440
  • Abstract

The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) gives a ranking of the diagnostic codes for the classification of the diseases. The process of medical coding allocates the subset of diagnosis codes as per CMS guidelines for a patient’s visit which is critical for patient care and claims billing. Human coding intervention is error-prone, time-consuming, and expensive. This experimental study is conducted by adapting and combining the individual methods like OCR for text reading, statistical text mining, machine learning, and rule-based NLP algorithms. We tested statistical text mining and rule-based NLP approach by adapting and combining the individual techniques. Using these two distinct technology approaches applied in conjunction, developed technique has been evaluated on a set of 2500 clinical notes annotated be the human subject matter medical coding experts.

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