On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 10:24:52AM +0000, 80n wrote: > Is it doable to create new descriptions from just the codes. Unless the > meaning of each code is common knowledge then you have to make recourse to > the original description, which makes your description a derived work at the > very least. Ah, I missed that point. That might be a bit of a problem, indeed.
> Is there any clean-room way of arriving at a description that could not be > construed to have been derived from the AMA's original description? On driver re-engineering this is sometimes done by two teams of people: one team knowing the original driver and describing how the *peripheral* (not the driver) works based on what can be derived from the original driver. The second team implements (clean-rooms) a new driver based on the description of how the peripheral works given by the first team. So, the first team could tell the second *in their own terms* (based on their knowledge) what the CPT codes *mean*. The second team could come up with a label for that code based on the description given by the first team. This might work. And it could indeed include the patient, too. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346
