Accession Number:

ADA581772

Title:

Atigeo at TREC 2012 Medical Records Track: ICD-9 Code Description Injection to Enhance Electronic Medical Record Search Accuracy

Descriptive Note:

Conference paper

Corporate Author:

ATIGEO LLC BELLEVUE WA

Personal Author(s):

• Tinsley, Bryan
• Thomas, Alex
• McCarthy, Joseph F.
• Lazarus, Mike

Report Date:

2012-11-01

Pagination or Media Count:

6.0

Abstract:

The TREC 2012 Medical Records Track task involves the identification of electronic medical records EMRs that are relevant to a set of search topics. Atigeo has a Computer-Aided Coding CAC product that analyzes electronic medical records EMRs and recommends ICD-9 codes that represent the diagnoses and procedures described in those medical records. We have developed a suite of natural language processing NLP components that are useful for both tasks. Our TREC 2012 experiments focused on the ICD-9 admission and diagnosis codes included in more than 90 of the TREC EMRs we used our comprehensive ICD-9 database to insert one of three variants of the text descriptions associated with each code found in each EMR. We describe the variations of ICD-9 code descriptions we inserted, the NLP components used for processing all the reports and topics, and report on the results of our experiments.

Descriptors:

• *INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
• CLINICAL MEDICINE
• CODING
• INFORMATION PROCESSING

Subject Categories:

• Information Science

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE