Inventors:
- Bellevue WA, US
Michael Sandoval - Bellevue WA, US
David Talby - Bellevue WA, US
Gunjan Gupta - Bellevue WA, US
Manjula Iyer - Bellevue WA, US
International Classification:
G06F 19/00
Abstract:
The current document is directed to methods and automated systems that assign individual medical codes selected from one or more medical codebooks to electronic medical records. In certain implementations, the currently disclosed automated systems generate multiple streams of medical terms or medical terms and phrases from an electronic medical record as well as multiple streams of medical terms or medical terms and phrases from individual medical codes contained within a medical codebook and then use stream-comparison functionality to select those individual medical codes of the medical codebook most likely to be relevant and related to the information encoded within the electronic medical record. In addition, in a disclosed implementation, the automated medical-coding system includes comprehensive training and feedback components that allow the automated medical-coding system to be trained and to continuously improve, over time, the accuracy, precision, and reliability of the assignment of medical codes to electronic medical records.