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1. A system for automatically mapping descriptions of diagnoses or procedures to corresponding medical codes from a medical coding system, wherein the medical codes are medical codes having associated diagnosis or procedure descriptions, the system comprising:
a processor; and a memory, including instructions, which when executed by the processor are operable to provide:
a parser, operable to receive a message comprising diagnosis or procedure information as text in narrative form to extract portions of the message containing the diagnosis or procedure information, wherein the parser is further operable to manipulate the text by:
correcting spelling of the text;substituting synonyms for medical terminology appearing in medical code descriptions in the text with the medical terminology; andrearranging words or phrases within the text based on semantic rules parsed from the text;a mapper, operable to compare the un-manipulated text and the manipulated text to the medical code description from the medical coding system to generate a score indicative of a level of confidence in whether a given medical code description matches the un-manipulated text or the manipulated text and when the score meets at least a selected level of confidence, mapping the extracted information to the medical code corresponding to the given medical code description; anda scorer, operable to evaluate the score associated with the mapped medical code to determine whether to supplying an output including the mapped medical code. |
