Automatic health record review to help prioritize gravely ill Social Security disability applicants.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Every year, thousands of patients die waiting for disability benefits from the Social Security Administration. Some qualify for expedited service under the Compassionate Allowance (CAL) initiative, but CAL software focuses exclusively on information from a single form field. This paper describes the development of a supplemental process for identifying some overlooked but gravely ill applicants, through automatic annotation of health records accompanying new claims. We explore improved prioritization instead of fully autonomous claims approval.

Materials and methods

We developed a sample of claims containing medical records at the moment of arrival in a single office. A series of tools annotated both patient records and public Web page descriptions of CAL medical c

SUBMITTER: Abbott K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7651957 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature