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Actually I have an ulterior motive for parsing the ICD-9 document from the CDC. Currently we pay significant (in my mind) dollars to purchase the dataset of ICD-9 codes. I worked with vendors to get pricing for the number of users we actually support. On the other side of the 'house' where I work the most recent set of ICD-9 codes cost $60.00. My guess is it is a single user license, it is used on a multi user application.
So I would like to be able to supply to the open source community a free version of the ICD-9 codes.
I see nothing in the documentation about licensing restrictions or re-distribution so I believe I can do this.
I imagine this is what most of the vendors do to create their data sets.
~ On th converting the doc. Yes I can convert easily to text or XML however the actually document is more like a book than a simple listing so text does not work as well. I will investigate the XML option.
~ Once the sed script is created it should work every time as long as the document layout itself does not change. If it does, well, thats Open Source for you.
~ Anyone interested in putting the script up on an FTP server if and when I can create it?
~ Pat
John Leo Zimmer wrote: | ---------- Original Message ----------- | From: Pat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Sent: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:11:11 -0400 | |> |>To All, |>I down loaded and looked over the ICD-9 files available on the CDC |>ftp server. They are all RTF documents with headers and formating |>that prevents easy parsing to a data file. Anyone have any script to |>break out the data or places for me to start. I enjoy a challenge & |>will figure out how to parse it if possible. A starting point would |>be helpful | | | [jlz] RTF to text is easy, as has been suggested. Parsing ICD.txt or ICD.xml | into VistA is more problematic. IMHO (and as suggested by someone earlier) | that is not to be undertaken as an alternative to waiting for the VA to | finish their update of the ICD9 within VistA.. To reinvent that wheel would | be non-trivial to the max. The VA's use of ICD9 is a big, complicated | wheel.. or set of gears, actually. | | regards, | jlz | | | ------------------------------------------------------- | This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 | Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on | who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. | Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php | _______________________________________________ | Hardhats-members mailing list | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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