NLP engine for reviewing and coding medical records (Phase 1: Advisory/Strategy Roadmap)

Project Description

Develop a strategy and business plan for building a Natural Language Processing engine that utilizes clinical text mining algorithms (trained from medical records previously coded by us) to improve medical coding productivity and lowering time spent per record. We currently employ over 1,000 coders worldwide and the goal is to build a technology tool that can allow us to scale our business without increased headcount and improve efficiencies in our process. The engine should flag clinical diagnosis code opportunities to the medical coder based on text mining algorithms after which the coder will confirm or reject the suggestion.