Distributed Knowledge Based Clinical Auto-Coding System

Rajvir Kaur


Abstract
Codification of free-text clinical narratives have long been recognised to be beneficial for secondary uses such as funding, insurance claim processing and research. In recent years, many researchers have studied the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP), related Machine Learning (ML) methods and techniques to resolve the problem of manual coding of clinical narratives. Most of the studies are focused on classification systems relevant to the U.S and there is a scarcity of studies relevant to Australian classification systems such as ICD-10-AM and ACHI. Therefore, we aim to develop a knowledge-based clinical auto-coding system, that utilise appropriate NLP and ML techniques to assign ICD-10-AM and ACHI codes to clinical records, while adhering to both local coding standards (Australian Coding Standard) and international guidelines that get updated and validated continuously.
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P19-2001
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Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop
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July
Year:
2019
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Florence, Italy
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Fernando Alva-Manchego, Eunsol Choi, Daniel Khashabi
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1–9
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https://aclanthology.org/P19-2001
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P19-2001
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Rajvir Kaur. 2019. Distributed Knowledge Based Clinical Auto-Coding System. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop, pages 1–9, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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