A-Life Medical Signs Contracts for ImageCoder in First Quarter.Business Editors & Health/Medical Writers SAN DIEGO--(BW HealthWire)--April 16, 2001 New Customers Perform Radiology Coding for 58 Hospitals and 90 Imaging Centers 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 its new contracts signed for the first quarter of 2001. Seven new radiology billing companies and practice management groups have agreed to implement A-Life's Web-based radiology coding product, ImageCoder(TM). These entities perform coding for approximately 58 hospitals and 90 imaging centers throughout the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . ImageCoder's ICD-9 and CPT CPT See: Carriage Paid To coding will provide significant improvement in productivity, efficiency, and accuracy for these facilities by automating coding in up to 70% of the reports. "There has been a great deal of excitement and confidence in the market for our radiology coding solution, and we are eager and optimistic for the future. We believe the selection of ImageCoder by these premier radiology billing companies and practice management groups further validates the value that we bring to this market," said Ken Kaufman, A-Life's chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. . A-Life's new ImageCoder customers include industry leaders such as: -- American Radiology Services Inc., Owings Mills, Md. -- Consulting Radiologists of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minn. -- PHYDATA, Goodlettsville, Tenn. -- Radiological Associates of Sacramento, Sacramento, Calif. -- University Radiology Associates, Jackson, Miss. -- Utah Radiology Associates, Murray, Utah Customers cited increased productivity, compliance, consistent coding, and ease of use as the main reasons for choosing A-Life's ImageCoder solution. A-Life's paperless coding and document processing system streamlines tasks and increases productivity, including document matching, automated assignment of ICD-9 and CPT codes, management reporting, and electronic upload of charges directly to the billing system from ImageCoder. ImageCoder also includes the Local Medical Review Policy guidelines, and Correct Coding Initiative (CCI CCI Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie (France) CCI CAM (Complementary and Alternative Medicine) Citation Index CCI Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Western Australia) ) edits in the automated coding process. About A-Life Medical Inc. A-Life Medical Inc. is a high tech medical informatics medical informatics, n the field of information science concerned with the analysis and dissemination of medical data through the application of computers to various aspects of health care and medicine. company that specializes in automating text processing in the medical industry. A-Life uses advanced natural language processing techniques that emulate human understanding of language. With these techniques, 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. 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. 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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