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PPV: Computer-assisted coding may be wave of the future
EHR Connection, October 22, 2007
Long gone are the days of tedious manual-based coding in which coders didn't have the luxury of access to encoders or the Internet. Today's coder is savvy in the ways of the electronic world-a world in which computers play a large role in the day-to-day coding routine.
And until now, coders have used computers only to assist in assigning codes. But imagine a world in which the computer itself reads the medical record, scans for vocabulary and syntax, and then assigns the code-all on its own. Sound like something out of the future?Click here to read more about computer-assisted coding.
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