Embracing CAC Beyond Reimbursement Initiatives.

Autor: Cassidy, Bonnie S., Gorman-Klug, Catherine, Brooks Taylor, Lisa
Zdroj: Journal of AHIMA; Nov/Dec2012, Vol. 83 Issue 11, p54-55, 2p, 1 Chart
Abstrakt: The article discusses the challenge for health information management (HIM), which is to implement computer-assisted coding (CAC)- with natural language processing (NLP) or natural language understanding (NLU) capabilities. The HIM professional needs to consider some of the ways in which CAC can be integrated into the measurement process in order to validate results of the manual abstraction and data aggregation prior to reporting. CAC can help with a pay-for-performance model.
Databáze: Supplemental Index