A-Life Medical, Inc. Announces Appointment of Linda Wiedeman as Senior Account Manager

A-Life Medical, the nation's largest healthcare provider of Natural Language Processing (NLP) solutions and Computer Assisted Coding applications, appointed Linda Wiedeman to the position of Senior Account Manager - Western Region.

San Diego, CA (PRWEB) June 11, 2009 -- A-Life Medical, the nation's largest healthcare provider of Natural Language Processing (NLP) solutions and Computer Assisted Coding applications, appointed Linda Wiedeman to the position of Senior Account Manager - Western Region. Linda will be responsible for working with A-Life Medical clients in the Western Region to ensure client and market satisfaction for A-Life's product solutions.

Linda is a registered Radiologic Technologist (RT) and also holds Radiology Coding Certification (RCC). She has over 20 years experience working in hospital imaging departments, performing radiography, CT and interventional procedures. She also has extensive experience working with hospital charge masters, procedure coding and billing processes. Prior to joining A-Life Medical, Linda spent six years at Zotec Partners, formerly Health Management Partners, a Southern California radiology-focused billing company, serving as the Director of Coding.

"Linda's radiology and coding backgrounds make her an ideal candidate to ensure A-Life's clients receive maximum revenue cycle benefits from A-Life's patented, computer-assisted coding software," commented Jaye Connolly, Chief Operating Officer of A-Life Medical. "Her unique skill set will be a tremendous asset for our Western Region clients."

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 analyzes text-based medical records throughout a dozen data sources. It provides coders with recommended ICD-9-CM codes, principal diagnosis, possible complications and co-morbidities and 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 increasing regulatory complexity healthcare organizations and their staff must deal with.

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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