[tellak]

Your example is the epitome of bullshit.

There is a tremendous amount of tech in medicine and considerable investment at larger healthcare systems. If medical coding were such a simple automateable problem it would have been done (I mean it’s freaking billing... absolutely the strongest and direct financial incentives to solve).

The first mistake/flaw you’re making is that the healthcare provider uses codes. That is most often not the case. Even if they do, it gets more complicated with submitting claims.

There are plenty of LUTs in healthcare that are managed by the EMR, billing ain’t one.

[yardie]

> If medical coding were such a simple automateable problem it would have been done

This profession exists only in the US. What are the other modern healthcare systems doing so they don’t need a coder? I’ll leave that for you to discover.