A major update to the software the CDC uses to code deaths should offer more timely information about diseases.
However, only about 70 to 75 percent of the country’s death certificates could be coded automatically; the rest were flagged for review, which means a staff member would have to input the cause of death into the system by hand. “When you’re dealing with 2 to 3 million deaths [every year], 25 to 30 percent of records is quite a substantial number and requires quite a lot of resources,” says Robert Anderson, chief of the Mortality Statistics Branch at the National Center for Health Statistics.
MedCoder is more adept than past systems at dealing with variations in the terms that physicians, medical examiners, and coroners use to describe mortalities, Anderson explains. The computer assigns one of 10,000 possible codes for causes of death to a record. For example, when COVID is mentioned on a death certificate, it chooses U07.1.
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