Clinical coding is the task of transforming medical information in a patient’s health records into structured codes so that they can be used for statistical analysis. This is a cognitive and ...

This article is co-authored by Burcu Aldogan. Imagine that you are the director of clinical systems at a life science company. Your goal is to ensure that the clinical trial succeeds. But if your ...

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 ...

For the research, Mount Sinai's Icahn School of Medicine evaluated the potential application for large language models in healthcare to automate medical code assignments – based on clinical text – for ...

The new Medicare and Medicaid coding guidelines for office visits are a big deal. Ensuring that they benefit the people who need them is a bigger one. It is clearer now that the federal government and ...

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 ...

Medical coders play a crucial role in the revenue cycle process, as they help ensure health systems, hospitals and physicians are properly reimbursed for the services they provide. Here are 14 things ...

The American Health Information Management Association has outlined core clinical documentation guidelines for coding medical diagnoses and procedures in 2013 and 2014. In a new white paper, AHIMA ...

The South African Health Informatics Association (SAHIA) will host its Clinical Coding Informatics Symposium on Wednesday, 1 October 2025, at the Melrose Surgical Centre in Johannesburg. This one-day ...

Nursing homes have forced Medicare to realign its spending on patients with higher medical complexity, including those with a primary diagnosis of congestive heart failure, Alzheimer’s disease and ...