System and method for medical coding of vascular interventional radiology procedures

• US 20080004505A1
• Filed: 07/03/2006
• Published: 01/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/03/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Solventum Intellectual Properties Company (Solventum Corp.)
• Original Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company (3M Company)
• Inventors: Stoner, Jean, Toren, Richard B., Niv, Michael, Kapit, Andrew
• Granted Patent: US 10,796,390 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/300
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/20 for handling medical images, e.g. DICOM, HL7 or PACS

Abstract

A system and method for identifying medical procedure codes and medical diagnosis codes from physician reports that describe a vascular interventional radiology procedure using a combination of natural language processing (NLP) and human medical coders. In one embodiment, the system and method of the present invention creates billing results, and or other documents, that are compliant with applicable legal and policy instructions from the government or a medical institution. Medical billing codes are efficiently extracted from medical reports using a NLP engine and a graphical user interface optimized for understanding the VasIR medical procedure described in the report.

Claims

1. A method of coding a medical report of at least one medical procedure, the method comprising:

extracting at least one medical term from the medical report;

associating the at least one medical term with at least one medical code;

displaying in a graphical user interface the at least one medical code and a graphical representation of the at least one medical procedure; and

accepting a user input.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the extracting is done using natural language processing.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the medical report relates to a vascular interventional radiology procedure.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the graphical user interface displays a highlighted portion of the graphical representation of the at least one medical procedure, the highlighted portion corresponding to a placement of a catheter used in the vascular interventional radiology procedure.