Guido Tapia
July 21, 2026
AI-assisted medical coding: suggestions your coders can defend
Clinical coding is one of the few places in a hospital where a software error has a directly calculable dollar value. Under activity based funding, the 2025-26 National Efficient Price is $7,258 per NWAU(25), a 5.9% increase and the largest since nat ...
#clinical-coding#icd-10-am#activity-based-funding#human-in-the-loop#health-it
July 28, 2026
Mining patient feedback and complaints for themes
Most health services in Australia are sitting on several years of patient comments that nobody has read from start to finish. The Likert scores get tabulated and put in the quarterly pack. The free text gets skimmed by whoever is assembling that pack ...
#patient-feedback#natural-language-processing#clinical-governance#privacy#large-language-models