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Medical billing, for both hospitals and doctors, is accomplished via a system of codes, which is already so complicated that there are special schools for it, granting degrees not just in coding but in special branches of coding. Coding boils down to assigning specific numbers to every problem (diagnosis codes) and other numbers to every treatment (treatment codes). Though the lists, in my field of orthopedics anyway, are woefully inadequate to capture how we actually think about or treat patients, they are still ponderous and complex. From common cold to brain tumor, open heart surgery to handing over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Electronic Medical Records: Will They Really Cut Costs? | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...might be that you have a very thorough doctor who is ruling out a rare ear-knee syndrome. More likely, the EMR program he bought is reminding him that notes on the chart about just few more body parts will kick your visit up into a higher-paying code...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Electronic Medical Records: Will They Really Cut Costs? | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...chatter abroad. What it does have a problem with is making sense of the sea of chatter it sucks out of the air and the world's fiber-optic cables. The risk of misinterpretation or missing a vital piece of information is enormous. (See the top 10 Secret Service code names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Intelligence Lapses: The Risks of Relying on 'Chatter' | 3/4/2009 | See Source »

...January 28, the FLA released a report on its investigations regarding Russell’s decision to close the Jerzees de Honduras factory, in violation of the FLA Workplace Code of Conduct. The report concluded that the move appeared to have been driven by a desire to shut down the union...

Author: By Margherita Pignatelli, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Ends Deal With Russell | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...Secret Service code names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Washington, D.C. | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

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