The Future Of Work Now--Medical Coding With AI

The coding of medical diagnosis and treatment has always been a challenging issue. Translating a patient's complex symptoms, and a clinician's efforts to address them, into a clear and unambiguous classification code was difficult even in simpler times. Now, however, hospitals and health insurance companies want very detailed information on what was wrong with a patient and the steps taken to treat them-- for clinical record-keeping, for hospital operations review and planning, and perhaps most importantly, for financial reimbursement purposes. The current international standard for medical coding is ICD-10 (the tenth version of International Classification of Disease codes), from the World Health Organization (WHO). ICD‑10 has over 14,000 codes for diagnoses.