“What happens when you bring together passionate public servants, brilliant data scientists, and experienced analysts to collaborate on a problem using the latest cloud-based technology? A hackathon!”
“In August 2021, VA hosted a data science hackathon focused on a common issue in VA and throughout the healthcare industry: inaccurate medical coding. For those not familiar with the term, medical coding is assigning industry standard alphanumeric codes to medical diagnoses, procedures and services.”
“Unfortunately, inaccurate assignments can negatively impact patient care, pollute research and misrepresent accounting (often with improper payments).”
“VA’s Office of Integrity and Compliance (OIC) regularly audits medical coding to manually identify errors. OIC sought ways to automate and improve error detection, so it partnered with VA’s Financial Services Center (FSC) Data Analytics Service (DAS) to “hack” on this challenge…” Read the full article here.
Source: VA Data Analytics Service hosts successful hackathon – By David P. Fuller, October 18, 2021. VAntage Point.
