Data integration of structured and unstructured sources for assigning clinical codes to patient stays

Conclusions We demonstrated that models using multiple electronic health record data sources systematically outperform models using data sources in isolation in the task of predicting ICD-9-CM codes over a broad range of medical specialties.

Source: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - August 27, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Scheurwegs, E., Luyckx, K., Luyten, L., Daelemans, W., Van den Bulcke, T. Tags: Research and Applications Source Type: research