Forbes

AI's Impact On Patient Care, Clinical Coding And Quality Metrics

The healthcare industry has seen rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning capabilities in recent years—from virtual health assistants and drug discovery to development and ...
Nature

Clinical coding of surgical procedures in the ophthalmology department

Clinical coding is a process by which descriptions of diseases, injuries or procedures are assigned a numeric or alphanumeric designation. Coding provides a mechanism for standardizing the recording ...
HealthLeaders Media

Back to basics: Understanding ICD-10-CM coding guidelines and clinical examples

ICD-10-CM coding can be challenging for coders in the outpatient setting. It is important to remember that the Official ICD-10-CM Guidelines for Coding and Reporting provide a road map to ensure ...
Health Affairs

New Clinical Coding Guidelines Account For Patients’ Social Risk: We Should Do More To Ensure They Advance Health Care Quality And Equity

On January 1, 2021, new evaluation and management (E&M) coding guidelines for clinical office visits go into effect across the US. These guidelines, which reflect the most significant change in E&M ...
ascopubs.org

Developing and Validating an Automatic Support System for Tumor Coding in Pathology Reports in Spanish

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 ...