LLMs are not ready to automate clinical coding, says Mount Sinai study

A new study from Mount Sinai suggests that using generative artificial intelligence to help with coding automation has some significant limitations.

WHY IT MATTERS

For the 

, Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine evaluated the potential application for large language models in healthcare to automate medical code assignments – based on clinical text – for reimbursement and research purposes. 

The study compared LLMs from OpenAI,…