A-Life Medical, Inc. Announces Appointment of David Byrd as Vice President of Business Development

A-Life Medical, the nation's largest provider of Natural Language Processing (NLP) solutions and Computer Assisted Coding applications, appointed David Byrd to the newly created position of Vice President of Business Development.

San Diego, CA (PRWEB) June 4, 2009 -- A-Life Medical, the nation's largest provider of Natural Language Processing (NLP) solutions and Computer Assisted Coding applications, appointed David Byrd to the newly created position of Vice President of Business Development. In a position demanded by A-Life's continual growth of both clients and employees, David will drive client and market satisfaction by expanding A-Life's sales and NLP product reach into further segments of the healthcare market.

Prior to rejoining A-Life Medical, David spent 18 months at Language & Computing, Inc., where he was Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Before that, he was Vice President of Sales and Marketing at A-Life Medical for seven years.

David is eager to grow A-Life's NLP solutions and coding offerings, saying, "A-Life is a fast paced, forward thinking high-tech organization. It's exciting to be part of a company that shows extreme passion for our customers and markets but with a professionalism that exists in more traditional industries."

A-Life Medical's coding product streamlines and simplifies the work done by human coders. Using A-Life's sophisticated NLP technology, which reads and understands English and medical terminology, the system is able to analyze text-based medical records throughout a dozen data sources. A-Life's system provides coders with recommended ICD-9-CM codes, principal diagnosis, possible complications and co-morbidities. It improves audit outcomes by producing automatic audit trails and links to documented evidence for each code selected. Integrated with an existing electronic medical record system of a client's choice, A-Life's coding product helps coders navigate the regulatory complexity created by the introduction of Medicare Severity Diagnosis-Related Groups (MS-DRGs).

About A-Life Medical, Inc.
A-Life Medical Inc., a privately held technology company based in San Diego, CA, is the leading provider of Natural Language Processing (NLP) based solutions for the healthcare industry. A-Life Medical's products extract meaning from unstructured free text and automate tedious, complicated and labor intensive tasks. A-Life Medical's mission is to provide world-class solutions to streamline and computerize the code to collection process while fundamentally advancing the way the healthcare industry gathers, applies and reports on patient information. A-Life Medical is the leading NLP provider for computer-assisted coding and billing product solutions for the healthcare industry. For more information about A-Life Medical and its products, call 888.224.6300 or visit www.alifemedical.com.

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