Mmmm, love me some ICD code hilarity Less funny is the human condition reduced to billing codes as only available option in the age of electronic health record

Mmmm, love me some ICD code hilarity Less funny is the human condition reduced to billing codes as only available option in the age of electronic health records moving towards precision medicine. What if clinicians were able to describe what they observed at a granularity they found appropriate in terms they went to great (and expensive) lengths to learn?[1] What if untrained people could describe patients in a way that could be equally meaningful (if not better informed)?[2] What if instead of dead ending on an insurance ledger, the codes describing your medical condition were part and parcel of an extensible logical framework over which reasoning and inference engines are run (okay fine... call them AI & ML if you are feeling buzz word deficient)[3] What if using these alternative codes afforded way of leveraging that science stuff grad students have been inflicting on little critters since time immemorial?[4] Note: Most everything is available on GitHub and work is ongoing ... 1 [https://hpo.jax.org/app/ https://hpo.jax.org/app/] 2 [https://hpo.jax.org/app/help/layperson https://hpo.jax.org/app/help/layperson] 3 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_(information_science) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_(information_science)] 4 [https://github.com/obophenotype https://github.com/obophenotype]