SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC ASSIGNMENT OF MEDICAL CODES TO UNFORMATTED DATA

摘要

A system and method for automatic assignment of medical codes to unformatted data. The system engine automatically assigns medic codes (ICD 9, ICD 10 and other versions) to unformatted or uncoded medical documents (medical notes, discharge summaries etc.). The system reads a document and then scans it for diagnoses associated with the medical codes. When diagnoses is identified, the system can also examine the language context in which the diagnosis appears. Using rules derived from syntactic and semantic usage, the system decides whether to apply and identified ICD code to the document being processed or not. The output is a set of medical codes and the corresponding diagnoses can then be stored in or applied to a number of different mediums.