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Overview

ICD-10-CM (International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification) is the standard code set for diagnoses. Eka Care’s codification pipeline links free-text diagnoses to ICD-10-CM codes.
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The Comprehend version

The comprehend version is built on AWS Comprehend Medical, a clinical NLP service. Unlike a plain term lookup, it understands diagnoses expressed in natural clinical language — handling modifiers, qualifiers and surrounding context — which makes it well suited to coding from real clinical notes.

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When to use it

Use it to code diagnoses from free-text clinical content:
  • Diagnoses recorded in consultation or discharge notes
  • Problem lists and assessments
  • Claims and medical-coding workflows
Send the diagnosis as the query — no metadata is needed.

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Reading the results

Each result is an ICD-10-CM code:
  • term_id — the ICD-10-CM code (e.g. E11)
  • term_name — the diagnosis description
  • score — confidence of the candidate
  • is_linked — true when the pipeline is confident of the match
The response also includes a query_breakdown derived from AWS Comprehend Medical:
  • entity — the clinical entity detected in the query
  • entity_score — confidence of that detection
  • traits — detected traits, e.g. DIAGNOSIS
  • attributes — detected attributes, e.g. a QUALITY of type 2

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Example

A query of type 2 diabetes mellitus links to ICD-10-CM E11 (“Type 2 diabetes mellitus”), with query_breakdown reporting the detected entity diabetes mellitus and the attribute type 2.

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Try it out

See the Link Entity API and select the ICD-10-CM Comprehend example to try it.