Terminology → Nomenclature → Coding → Classification! The relationships of one facet of medical documentation and data handling to another are portrayed sequentially, as above. Similar interrelationships prevail in the fields of fundamental science and business. Accordingly, certain functions include data evaluations as in research, planning, and fiscal compensation. In medicine, the interests encompass determinations of quality of medical care, notably the effectiveness of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. In the midst of apparent agreement, questions are posed: Are exactitudes altogether essential? Is the insistence on data composition as important to provider as to recipient? If not, why be disturbed when computers—like the Campbells—are coming? For automation per se might resolve intricacies without a touch of the human hand. Whether we cry Hurray! hurray! will depend on our faith in deus ex machina. 1 In another light, should we advocate ostrichism—bury our heads in the sand to avoid the challenge of
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