Presentation on DPC Coding at Applied AI R&D Meetup
Analysis
The article discusses a presentation on DPC/PDPS and Clinical Coding related to a hospital product. Clinical Coding involves converting medical records into standard classification codes, primarily ICD-10 for diseases and medical procedure codes in Japan. The task is characterized by a large number of classes, significant class imbalance (rare diseases), and is likely a multi-class classification problem.
Key Takeaways
“Clinical Coding is the technology that converts information from medical records regarding a patient's condition, diagnosis, treatment, etc., into codes of some standard classification system. In Japan, for diseases, it is mostly converted to ICD-10 (International Classification of Diseases, 10th edition), and for procedures, it is converted to codes from the medical treatment behavior master. This task is characterized by a very large number of classes, a significant bias in class occurrence rates (rare diseases occur in about one in several hundred thousand people), and...”