Whats wrong with using ICD?
…or insert your favourite coding scheme instead of ICD. Nothing, provided that you are using it for the purpose for which it was intended. In fact we hope that the GALEN Technology, and specialised tools such as the Classification Workbench will help those building coding and classification systems such as the ICD to make them better and more consistent. However, increasingly people want to use codes or terms much more widely and to share them between different applications. This is difficult with traditional systems such as ICD. One reason is that individual coding schemes were typically developed for specific purposes. It is difficult or impossible to re-organise them to fit another purpose for example to take a scheme organised according to aetiology and reorganise it according to anatomical or functional descriptions.
…or insert your favourite coding scheme instead of ICD. Nothing, provided that you are using it for the purpose for which it was intended. In fact we hope that the GALEN Technology, and specialised tools such as the Classification Workbench will help those building coding and classification systems such as the ICD to make them better and more consistent. However, increasingly people want to use codes or terms much more widely and to share them between different applications. This is difficult with traditional systems such as ICD. One reason is that individual coding schemes were typically developed for specific purposes. It is difficult or impossible to re-organise them to fit another purpose for example to take a scheme organised according to aetiology and reorganise it according to anatomical or functional descriptions. Another reason is that none of these schemes is sufficiently detailed to support the level of description needed to describe clinical care for medical records, radi
