Background: Computer-assisted clinical coding (CAC) tools are designed to help clinical coders assign standardized codes, such as the ICD-10 (International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision), to clinical texts, such as discharge summaries. Maintaining the integrity of these standardized codes is important both for the functioning of health systems and for ensuring data used for secondary purposes are of high quality. Clinical coding is an error-prone cumbersome task, and the complexity of modern classification systems such as the ICD-11 (International Classification of Diseases, Eleventh Revision) presents significant barriers to implementation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Despite substantial progress in AI research for healthcare, translating research achievements to AI systems in clinical settings is challenging and, in many cases, unsatisfactory. As a result, many AI investments have stalled at the prototype level, never reaching clinical settings.
Objective: To improve the chances of future AI implementation projects succeeding, we analyzed the experiences of clinical AI system implementers to better understand the challenges and success factors in their implementations.
The lack of relevant annotated datasets represents one key limitation in the application of Natural Language Processing techniques in a broad number of tasks, among them Protected Health Information (PHI) identification in Norwegian clinical text. In this work, the possibility of exploiting resources from Swedish, a very closely related language, to Norwegian is explored. The Swedish dataset is annotated with PHI information.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWith the recent advances in natural language processing and deep learning, the development of tools that can assist medical coders in ICD-10 diagnosis coding and increase their efficiency in coding discharge summaries is significantly more viable than before. To that end, one important component in the development of these models is the datasets used to train them. In this study, such datasets are presented, and it is shown that one of them can be used to develop a BERT-based language model that can consistently perform well in assigning ICD-10 codes to discharge summaries written in Swedish.
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December 2022
There is a large proliferation of complex data-driven artificial intelligence (AI) applications in many aspects of our daily lives, but their implementation in healthcare is still limited. This scoping review takes a theoretical approach to examine the barriers and facilitators based on empirical data from existing implementations. We searched the major databases of relevant scientific publications for articles related to AI in clinical settings, published between 2015 and 2021.
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