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3 roundtable takes on how AI-powered coding is transforming hospital operations + outcomes: Fathom featured in Becker's Healthcare

January 4, 2024

Becker's Healthcare equips healthcare leaders with the information and forums they need to learn, exchange ideas and further conversations about the most critical issues in American healthcare.

Fathom leaders Ross Moore and Dave Blanchard recently hosted an interactive session at Becker's 11th Annual CEO + CFO Roundtable focused on artificial intelligence and the benefits of medical coding automation. They explored a range of areas, including the challenge of how to implement AI without a guidebook and how the technology alleviates staff burden.

"The goal of autonomous coding is to help them [physicians] operate at the top of their license and not have to do things like E&M leveling at the end of the day or diagnosis coding...areas like inpatient or surgical might have medical coders, but with respect to labor supply, medical coders were really hit hardest by the pandemic. There are less and less people becoming medical coders, and technology is needed to fill that gap."

Read the full write-up from Becker's Hospital Review.

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