From Pilot to Scale, Mount Sinai Leverages Autonomous Medical Coding
- An experiment to streamline medical coding is set to take off at Mount Sinai Health System. The academic medical system nestled in the New York metropolitan area recently implemented autonomous medical coding within its pathology department to streamline coding and bring efficiencies to care delivery. Now, the technology codes about half of the system’s pathology cases, with...
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