Patents Examined by Maroun P Kannan
  • Patent number: 10949602
    Abstract: Some aspect include a system for automatically processing text comprising information regarding a patient encounter to prioritize medical billing codes derived from the text. The system comprises at least one storage medium storing processor-executable instructions, and at least one processor configured to execute the processor-executable instructions to analyze the text to extract a plurality of facts from the text, assign a plurality of medical billing codes to the text based at least in part on the plurality of facts, using a model trained at least in part on feedback from a user, order the plurality of medical billing codes in a sequence beginning with a primary medical billing code corresponding to a primary diagnosis associated with the text, and present the ordered sequence of medical billing codes to the user for review.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Neal E. Snider, Feifan Liu, Girija Yegnanarayanan