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recode

(riːˈkəʊd)
vb (tr)
to put (something) into, or provide (something) with, a new or different code
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
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Verb1.recode - put into a different code; rearrange mentally; "People recode and restructure information in order to remember it"
rearrange - put into a new order or arrangement; "Please rearrange these files"; "rearrange the furniture in my room"
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The insider then recodes public code into private code (e.g., medical transcription), and uses the insider code to fulfill the external client's request.
In reality, virtually all systems, at all hierarchical levels, recode both incoming and outgoing information, although the degree and nature of the recoding can vary widely from one system to another.
As previously noted, because of the NHIS recodes, these broad categories of health conditions are combinations of conditions, reflecting end points with and without known environmental etiologies.
Categories of end points are grouped by ICD-9 codes in a process known as the NHIS recode (NCHS 2000).