Jennifer L Ward

US Patent:

20170323061, Nov 9, 2017

Filed:

Dec 7, 2016

Appl. No.:

15/372338

Inventors:

- Burlington MA, US
Debjani Sarkar - Herndon VA, US
Regina Marie Spitznagel - Naples FL, US
Laxmi Gottumukkala - Reston VA, US
Diana DeMarco Brown - Acton MA, US
Jennifer Marie Ward - Beaverton OR, US
Sean Nicholas Stefanik - Pittsburgh PA, US
Joanne K. Murphy - Chicago IL, US

International Classification:

G06F 19/00
G06F 3/0482
G06F 17/27
G06F 19/00

Abstract:

In a system with a display and an input device, a graphical user interface (GUI) may be presented via the display. A natural language understanding engine may be applied to a free-form text documenting a clinical patient encounter, to automatically derive one or more engine-suggested medical billing codes, which may be presented in the GUI. User input may be accepted to approve at least one of the engine-suggested codes and/or to enter one or more user-added codes in the GUI, resulting in a set of user-approved codes. The set of user-approved codes may be automatically correlated to a diagnosis related group (DRG) for the patient encounter, which may be displayed. In response to user input changing the set of user-approved codes by approving or removing approval of an engine-suggested code in the GUI, the DRG may be automatically updated, and the updated DRG for the patient encounter may be displayed.