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abstracts 33 and teaching case reports. 34 An example of a clinical NLP application
is GoCode (now known as Discern nCode, 35 developed at the Mayo Clinic, with
adoption by several university health systems to aid in mapping of clinical text to
SNOMED CT, ICD-9, and CPT for Evaluation and Management coding.
Acknowledgment Dr. Rosenbloom’s work was supported in part by a Grant from the United
States National Library of Medicine (Rosenbloom, 5K22 LM008576-03).
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