Increasing Alertness while Coding Secondary Diagnostics in the Medical Record

Ghazar Chahbandarian, Nathalie Souf, Rémi Bastide, Jean-Christophe Steinbach

2016

Abstract

In order to measure the medical activity, hospitals are required to manually encode information concerning a patient’s stay using International Classification of Disease (ICD-10). This task is time consuming and requires substantial training for the staff. We propose to help by speeding up and facilitating the tedious task of coding patient information, specially while coding some secondary diagnostics that are not well described in the medical resources such as discharge letter and medical records. Our approach consists of building a decision tree out of big variety of inpatient stay information in particular, contextual information such as age, sex, diagnostic count and other related information, next figure out missing secondary diagnostics. The results are still preliminary, we identify some important information variables that can be interesting to verify while coding certain secondary diagnostics.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Chahbandarian G., Souf N., Bastide R. and Steinbach J. (2016). Increasing Alertness while Coding Secondary Diagnostics in the Medical Record . In Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 5: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2016) ISBN 978-989-758-170-0, pages 490-495. DOI: 10.5220/0005824004900495

in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf16,
author={Ghazar Chahbandarian and Nathalie Souf and Rémi Bastide and Jean-Christophe Steinbach},
title={Increasing Alertness while Coding Secondary Diagnostics in the Medical Record},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 5: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2016)},
year={2016},
pages={490-495},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005824004900495},
isbn={978-989-758-170-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 5: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2016)
TI - Increasing Alertness while Coding Secondary Diagnostics in the Medical Record
SN - 978-989-758-170-0
AU - Chahbandarian G.
AU - Souf N.
AU - Bastide R.
AU - Steinbach J.
PY - 2016
SP - 490
EP - 495
DO - 10.5220/0005824004900495