Adding a lookup step makes AI better at assigning medical diagnosis codes
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A new study by researchers at the Mount Sinai Health System suggests that a simple tweak to how artificial intelligence (AI) assigns diagnostic codes could significantly improve accuracy, even outperforming physicians.
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