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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Sorry for the late announcement and changes to the program.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:NimbusRomNo9L-Regu'>BioNLP Invited Talk</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:NimbusRomNo9L-Medi'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:NimbusRomNo9L-Medi'>Thursday June 23, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:NimbusRomNo9L-Medi'>Time: </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:NimbusRomNo9L-Regu'>11:00–12:30</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:NimbusRomNo9L-Medi'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><br>Title:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Computer Assisted Coding and Beyond<br>An Academic's Adventures with Clinical Natural Language Processing in the Real World<br><br>Philip Resnik<br>University of Maryland<br><br>Medical coding is the process of translating clinical records into<br>reimbursement codes, the basis for how clinicians get paid for their<br>work. Computer assisted coding is on the rise in the healthcare<br>revenue cycle, as organizations struggle with a shortage of qualified<br>coders, increasing pressure to find financial efficiencies, and the<br>near-term prospect of a wholesale redefinition of diagnosis coding<br>standards. As a problem to work on, coding is in some respects an NLP<br>researcher's dream come true. In other respects, it is the stuff of<br>nightmares, or at least of long, sleepless nights.<br><br>In this talk, I will discuss my experience as an academic helping to<br>create technology to process clinical records outside the comfortable<br>confines of a research setting. In the process, I will also talk about<br>opportunities and risks in the quest for universal electronic health<br>records, some dangers in controlling the medical vocabulary, and how<br>language technology may be the solution.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>