Samo "In human and inhuman readable health coding we trust."
What is Docle? It started off as medical coding for experience, knowledge, wisdom ..and pleasure but along the way a medical software company, seeing the ease of use and potential of a non-numeric health coding system made it Australia's No. 1 coding system for GPs. The body of work identified as "Docle" keeps expanding, it spans health coding, to computer representation of ubiquitous health language, to medical messaging, to interoperable patient health records.
In a nutshell Docle can be explained by
the following design principles:
Docle design principle
No. 1
Clinical codes are
wordful meanings and are intention revealing.
Docle design principle
No. 2
Clinical codes are
derived from ubiquitous health language in this manner: if the health concept
is one word then the first four characters of the word else if it is two words
then the first four characters of the first word plus the first character
of the second word else the first characters of each word for the case of three
or more words.
Docle design principle
No. 3
Clinical
codes grow with evolving order with both speciation and large scale structures
in a Linnean manner.
Docle
design principle No. 4
Clinical
codes are designed to be snapped on together to form clinical statements (docle
closures) using joiner codes. Analogous to the clinical concept codes being the
neurons and the joiner codes being the glia.
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Further information can be obtained from:
http:// www.docle.com
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