The codes are assigned to the ads by an autocoder (37) at the six-digit and the eight-digit [O.sup.*] Net level based on the job titles and job descriptions.
According to the Conference Board, the autocoder is able to assign occupation codes to 96 percent to 99 percent of all unduplicated ads.
An "
autocoder" function assists clinicians to select appropriate diagnosis and procedure codes.
"For those old enough to remember them, the first computer I worked on was an IBM 1440, using
Autocoder," he said.
Further, by way of comparison, commercial products that advertise medical NLP (for example, HBOC's
AUTOCODER or Medicode's ENCODER PRO) are essentially keyword-recognition systems for searching online versions of paper reference manuals.
The first hurtle to overcome is the arcane languages they were written in, like
Autocoder, Cobol, Fortran, and Assembler.
Thirty years ago a colleague of mine, in all seriousness, proposed to a group of IS programming leaders at a major aerospace company that its programmers should switch from Cobol or
Autocoder to Fortran.
These include Standard Life, Royal London, Hudson Advisors, Downing, Invel Real Estate, Schroders, Grosvenor, Mordril and Arrowcroft In terms of occupiers, the duo has secured instructions from CMA CGM, Maersk, Investec, Career Connect, Police Mutual, Brookes Bell, Ombudsman Services, Jackson & Canter Solicitors, Canter Levin & Berg Solicitors,
Autocoders and Uniform.
Cases which cannot be coded by
autocoders are coded manually using the computer assisted coding (CAC) system.