A-Life Medical's LifeCode Solution Awarded 'Best in Practical Innovations of Intelligent Systems Applications' by AAAI.Business Editors/Health & Medical Writers SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 7, 2000 A-Life Medical, Inc., the leader in advanced natural language processing Natural language processing Computer analysis and generation of natural language text. The goal is to enable natural languages, such as English, French, or Japanese, to serve either as the medium through which users interact with computer systems such as (NLP (Natural Language Processing) The capability of understanding human language. If the language is spoken, voice recognition plays an important role in converting the sounds to individual words. Then, natural language processing figures out what the words mean. ) technology for the medical industry, today announced that it has been awarded "Best in Practical Innovations of Intelligent Systems Applications" for its LifeCode(TM) application by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI AAAI American Association for Artificial Intelligence AAAI Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (Menlo Park, California) AAAI American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology ). The honor is presented to companies "whose solutions have demonstrated measurable real-life benefits while implemented successfully in industrial, government, scientific, and educational settings," according to AAAI sources. One of six applications chosen to receive this honor, A-Life's paper, "LifeCode: A Natural Language Processing System for Medical Coding and Data Mining," describes LifeCode's system for extracting useful data for the Emergency Medicine clinical specialty through NLP. LifeCode's innovative technology actually teaches a computer to read narrative text, extract medical facts, and automatically assign procedure codes (CPT CPT See: Carriage Paid To ) and diagnosis codes (ICD-9-CM ICD-9-CM International Classification of Disease, 9th edition, Clinical Modification A standardized classification of disease, injuries, and causes of death, by etiology and anatomic localization and codified into a 6-digit number, which allows ). "This award represents a milestone in A-Life's mission to use artificial intelligence to automate the medical coding and data mining industry in order to streamline their processes and ensure HCFA HCFA abbr. Health Care Financing Administration HCFA, n.pr See Health Care Financing Administration. compliance," said Mark Morsch, Director of Natural Language Technology at A-Life Medical and co-author for the LifeCode entry. "LifeCode is a valuable service that offers our clients the benefits of high accuracy coding, rapid turn-around times and a complete record of the entire decision making process. LifeCode's ability to formalize and store every fact that was considered in the coding process also makes it a powerful data-mining tool. For human coders, there just isn't the time or money do what LifeCode does in the blink of an eye," comments Dr. Daniel Heinze, A-Life's Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer. Criteria for this award included the innovative nature of the technology, the usefulness of the application and the level of success in deployment. A-Life Medical and the other five application winners were honored at the Innovative Application of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI IAAI International Association of Arson Investigators IAAI Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (Conference) IAAI Israeli Association for Artificial Intelligence IAAI International Airport Authority of India ) conference, IAAI-2000 on August 1 - 3, 2000. About A-Life Medical, Inc. A-Life Medical, Inc. is the leader in advanced natural language processing (NLP) technology for the medical industry. This technology emulates human understanding of language. Through its expertise in NLP technology, A-Life has successfully taught a computer to "read" narrative text associated with physicians' charts and to automatically assign complex medical codes used for billing and data collection. A-Life's current focus is on coding in the emergency medicine and radiology specialties, with plans to expand to other areas of medicine, including inpatient services. Founded in 1996, A-Life Medical is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. headquartered in San Diego, California “San Diego” redirects here. For other uses, see San Diego (disambiguation). San Diego is a coastal Southern California city located in the southwestern corner of the continental United States. As of 2006, the city has a population of 1,256,951. . For more information on A-Life and its products, call 858-268-9999 or visit A-Life at www.alifemedical.com. |
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