Clinical coding is the task of transforming medical information in a patient’s health records into structured codes so that they can be used for statistical analysis. This is a cognitive and ...
Hospitals in England are reimbursed via national tariffs set out by NHS England. The tariffs payable to hospitals are determined by the activity coded for each patient’s hospital visit. There are no ...
The new Medicare and Medicaid coding guidelines for office visits are a big deal. Ensuring that they benefit the people who need them is a bigger one. It is clearer now that the federal government and ...
This article is co-authored by Burcu Aldogan. Imagine that you are the director of clinical systems at a life science company. Your goal is to ensure that the clinical trial succeeds. But if your ...
Netsmart has launched AlphaCoding, an AI-powered clinical coding tool designed to improve compliance, accuracy, and efficiency across healthcare settings. Guided by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...
The need for autonomous coding solutions is multi-faceted and increasing. This need stems mainly from a shortage of qualified coding resources, staggering numbers of patient charts to code, constantly ...
The combined technology will help support accurate capture of documentation and code assignment resulting in appropriate claim reimbursement, accurate reporting of patient outcomes and reduced claims ...
We created an annotated corpus of tumor morphology and topography mentions consisting of 1,101 documents. We combined it with the CANTEMIST corpus (Cancer Text Mining Shared Task). Specifically, we ...