Get ready to be counted

Ready, set, 10 months to go: how to get organized and be fearless about ICD-10.

“The billing office is handling that,” an orthopedic surgeon at a recent reimbursement workshop said. Like many physicians, he was unaware that asking the billing office to handle ICD-10, the 10th revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD), is like trying to do a crossword puzzle using only the “Down” clues. It is impossible, because h...

Not everything that counts can be counted; not everything that can be counted counts.

Standardization of radical cystectomy: time to count and be counted.

Consensus Builder: A Place to Speak, Listen, and Be Counted

This paper presents a vision for an internet application that will support constructive political discourse. Consensus Builder will invite people to speak their beliefs and engage in interpretive processes that result in internal representation of statements as ontological models. Analyses of similarities and differences between statements will support listening and exchange of ideas. Semantica...

Measuring research impact: not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted