[Corpora-List] keynote talk at BioNLP 2011, Thursday June 23, 2011, 11:00 -- 12:30: An Academic's Adventures with Clinical Natural Language Processing in the Real World

[Demner Fushman, Dina (NIH/NLM/LHC) [E]]

Sorry for the late announcement and changes to the program.

BioNLP Invited Talk

Thursday June 23, 2011
Time:  11:00-12:30

Title:
Computer Assisted Coding and Beyond
An Academic's Adventures with Clinical Natural Language Processing in the Real World

Philip Resnik
University of Maryland

Medical coding is the process of translating clinical records into
reimbursement codes, the basis for how clinicians get paid for their
work. Computer assisted coding is on the rise in the healthcare
revenue cycle, as organizations struggle with a shortage of qualified
coders, increasing pressure to find financial efficiencies, and the
near-term prospect of a wholesale redefinition of diagnosis coding
standards. As a problem to work on, coding is in some respects an NLP
researcher's dream come true. In other respects, it is the stuff of
nightmares, or at least of long, sleepless nights.

In this talk, I will discuss my experience as an academic helping to
create technology to process clinical records outside the comfortable
confines of a research setting. In the process, I will also talk about
opportunities and risks in the quest for universal electronic health
records, some dangers in controlling the medical vocabulary, and how
language technology may be the solution.

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