Graphical User Interface for assistance with ICD-10 coding of Hospital Discharge Records

摘要

The implantation of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems 10th Revision has caused coding becomes increasingly complex and slow for health professionals. ICD-10 presents a very different architecture to the previous version, ICD-9, defining a new structure and thousands of additional codes. Some Spanish health institutions try to incorporate coding assist software. However, the currently proposed systems do not offer the functionality of directly suggesting ICD-10 codes from free text in hospital reports. This work proposes the development of an intuitive and easy-to-use graphical user interface capable of assisting encoders in the ICD-10 coding of medical reports through an approach based exclusively on the analysis of textual content.