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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2017
Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Neal E. Snider, Belmont, MA (US);
Feifan Liu, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Girija Yegnanarayanan, Raleigh, NC (US);
Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Abstract
Some aspect include a system for automatically processing text comprising information regarding a patient encounter to prioritize medical billing codes derived from the text. The system comprises at least one storage medium storing processor-executable instructions, and at least one processor configured to execute the processor-executable instructions to analyze the text to extract a plurality of facts from the text, assign a plurality of medical billing codes to the text based at least in part on the plurality of facts, using a model trained at least in part on feedback from a user, order the plurality of medical billing codes in a sequence beginning with a primary medical billing code corresponding to a primary diagnosis associated with the text, and present the ordered sequence of medical billing codes to the user for review.