When I worked at Honeywell their quality system had hundreds of codes a tech was supposed to use to identify a failure. The idea was to find the root causes and fix them. I got that assignment. Probably 90% of the failures were attributed to a code essentially meaning “it’s broke. Cause unknown.”
That is precisely what this system will get. Nobody is going to read down a list longer than ten items.
I was in comms in the AF where we troubleshot and managed A/G, RAPCON and Telcomm circuits, we had trouble codes dictated by DCA.
IIRC, the code for no trouble found, was NNB. The higher ups never wanted to see that in the reports.
Remember Yahoo in the early days of the web?
They tried to classify web pages, much as librarians try to classify books.
Then along came search engines. And Yahoo was obsolete. Then along came Google, and it was Game Over!
Taxonomy is the most menial form of intellectual labor.
...or mistyped the correct code. Geesh!
**....the new system will increase the number of codes to describe various ailments and their treatments from 17,000 to 155,000.**
Sounds like a piece of cake.
True that, however, the transcription technology today does it for them and manual coders audit on the back end.
About a year ago there was an article that said there were more than 140,000 different codes for medical procedures inside Obamacare, and the list was growing.
I cannot imagine how long it will take office personnel to properly code what the doctor of hospital is doing for a patient.
IF the codes don’t get approval from the Feds, then money is withheld until they are satisfied, or they can PROSECUTE the doc or hospital for using false codes.
Welcome to a complete nightmare.