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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2017
Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Weiyi Sun, Medford, MA (US);
Ravi Kondadadi, Rosemount, MN (US);
Brian William Delaney, Bolton, MA (US);
Girija Yegnanarayanan, Raleigh, NC (US);
Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Abstract
According to some aspects, a system for automatically processing text comprising information regarding a patient encounter to assign medical codes to the text is provided. 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 perform analyzing the text to extract a plurality of facts from the text, identifying at least one of the plurality of facts to be excluded from consideration when assigning medical codes to the text, and evaluating each of the plurality of facts, except for the identified at least one fact, to assign one or more medical codes to the text.