Imagine a healthcare system in which providers do not have to prepare and submit bills. No ICD-9-CM or CPT coding, no MS-DRGs (or any other type of DRGs), no charge master or charge capture, no DNFB.

Lossy compression schemes can be based on a source model, as in the case of speech compression, or a user or sink model, as is somewhat the case in image compression. In this chapter we look at audio ...