LifeCode (NLP)

A-Life Medical’s proprietary and patented LifeCode technology takes an innovative approach to Natural Language Processing (NLP). LifeCode, utilizing NLP, allows for A-Life's solutions to read, abstract and comprehend electronic text in a similar manner as a human. A-Life has invented new techniques for precisely recognizing the meanings of words and developed a broad knowledge base of medicine, producing a system that understands electronic medical records (those inputted via transcription or speech recognition) as well as human experts can. In 2005, A-Life patented its novel NLP technology. LifeCode was the first commercial application of NLP to combine a human-level of language understanding with a machine-level of consistency and efficiency.

A-Life’s LifeCode technology contains distinctive capabilities to read narrative text, extract key medical facts, preserve the context of each fact and apply expert rules that implement a variety of different coding and abstracting tasks. LifeCode turns data into meaningful use for a variety of healthcare applications. And, unlike other keyword and statistical approaches to NLP, A-Life’s technology recognizes fine details within medical documentation while covering a broad range of concepts across multiple specialty areas. LifeCode has fully traceable logic and provides direct connections between the medical documentation and LifeCode’s output - whether for computer-assisted coding (CAC) or data abstraction purposes. With LifeCode, documents flow into LifeCode and are transformed into a collection of discrete data elements and facts.

LifeCode contains millions of definitions addressing diagnoses, procedures, anatomy, physiology, medicinal drugs, illicit drugs, poisons, viruses and bacteria. This allows A-Life to offer broad healthcare solutions that provide an extensive contextual knowledge base required for medical language understanding. This medical vocabulary forms the foundation for our physician and hospital computer-assisted coding products.

For more than a decade, A-Life has been providing the healthcare industry with proven and reliable computer-assisted coding solutions that assist in the coding process and meet coders’ needs. A-Life processes in excess of five million transactions monthly, has thousands of users and provides coding services to more than 40,000 physicians nationwide.

A-Life's products and services assist coding operations for healthcare organizations specializing in Radiology, Pathology, Emergency Medicine and Cardiology to name a few.