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Authors:
Cecília Coimbra
Marisa Esteves
Filipe Miranda
Filipe Portela
Manuel Santos
José Machado
António Abelha
Keywords: ICD-9-CM; Diagnosis-related Groups; Hospital Discharges; Single-page Application; Proof of Concept.
Abstract:
In recent years, in Centro Hospitalar do Porto (CHP), a major Portuguese hospital at the North of the country, there has been felt an increasing need for a computerized clinical coding tool to aid in the codification of the episodes of hospital discharges from patients admitted to its healthcare units. The process was slow and performed manually by the coding professionals, not having a centralization and unification of the information and processes associated with the clinical coding of a hospital discharge. Hereupon, in the context of this study, the aim of the present work was to design and develop a clinical coding tool for International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) to support the clinical practice in healthcare units. The coding of hospital discharge processes enables the grouping of episodes into diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) that correspond to clinically coherent and similar groups that are expected to use the same level of hospital resources. The main motivation for the implementation of this classification system is that it provides a financial and patient classification system, trying to contain the costs and waste associated with healthcare services. Thereby, a single-page application (SPA) for ICD-9-CM was designed in order to help health professionals of CHP in their daily work, namely the clinical coding of the episodes of hospital discharges. The main advantages and contributions of the development and use of this Web application are the centralization of information and tasks associated with the coding of hospital discharges, the increase of productivity and the reduction of wastes of time. Consequently, the ambition is sought to mainly improve the quantity and the quality of work performed by coding professionals.
Pages: 33 to 36
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2017
Publication date: March 19, 2017
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4359
ISBN: 978-1-61208-540-1
Location: Nice, France
Dates: from March 19, 2017 to March 23, 2017