Medical Futurist June 1, 2023
When it comes to the term ‘coding’, what comes to mind is probably programmers writing software. While this applies to the medical setting in the digital health age, traditionally, medical coding has referred to a specific process. It involves the conversion of medical records, generally from clinician’s texts, into structured codes based on a classification system for the appropriate patient diagnosis and relevant procedure.
The result is clinical information that is consistent and comparable over time and across healthcare departments. Such data can subsequently be used to inform relevant research, policies and, in the case of the US, for billing purposes.
While important, the manual task of clinical coding is time-consuming. In the case of NHS Scotland for example,...
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