Healthcare IT News March 8, 2024
Autonomous medical coding has been viewed as the province of large academic medical centers that could afford to experiment with cutting-edge technology. Today it is starting to be viewed as a necessary tool for all health systems.
Revenue cycle management performance has never been more important. And recent advances in technology, particularly artificial intelligence, offer much potential for healthcare’s administrative functions.
The RCM function could lay the foundation to harness technology to contribute to better hospital and health system performance, said Jay Aslam, cofounder and chief data scientist at CodaMetrix. Aslam was part of the team that developed Massachusetts General Brigham’s original medical coding AI system in 2016 and has an insider’s perspective on the role AI is playing in...