Compare and contrast the two different CAC technologies

What will be an ideal response?

Answer: Structured input uses menus with clinical terms. A series of menus are selected to create the narrative text in the documentation. The menu choices generate links to the codes, which are then created, based on the documentation. The person documenting does not have to select manually the code.

NLP – also known as computational linguistics, uses artificial intelligence to extract specific information and terms from text-based documentation, analyze it, and convert it to the most likely ICD-10-CM codes. Coders utilizing a specialized application to validate the codes review the information.

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