Machine Learning for Medical Coding in Healthcare Surveys.

Journal: Vital and health statistics. Ser. 1, Programs and collection procedures
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Abstract

Objectives Medical coding, or the translation of healthcare information into numeric codes, is expensive and time intensive. This exploratory study evaluates the use of machine learning classifiers to perform automated medical coding for large statistical healthcare surveys.

Authors

  • Christine A Lucas
  • Emily Hadley
  • Robert Chew
    Center for Data Science, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States.
  • Jason Nance
  • Peter Baumgartner
  • Rita Thissen
  • David M Plotner
  • Christine Carr
  • Aerian Tatum