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 ...
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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 ...
Business Wire

Nuance Launches Clintegrity 360, the Only Clinically-Focused Computer-Assisted Clinical Documentation Improvement and Coding Solution

NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HIMSS CONFERENCE -- Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced Clintegrity 360 ™, an integrated computer-assisted system for clinical documentation ...
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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 ...