upcode

The behavioral norms which influence how software (or "downcode") is produced.

Noun

The behavioral norms which influence how software (or "downcode") is produced.
- Upcode includes the mental codes that shape human thought and behavior from within and the cultural codes that operate on us, often invisibly, from without: personal morality, religious rituals, social norms, legal...

From up- + code.

To change the diagnostic code of a patient's condition from the correct code to one for which a larger amount can be billed.
- Several factors appear to have fueled the PBD epidemic: […]; and diagnostic upcoding in the U.S. health system that rations treatment according to DSM diagnoses [ 14 ]. - 2014 March 28, Peter Parry, “Biologism in...
To give an improved code or rating to something.
- Introduction of more wagons fitted with vacuum brakes and roller-bearing axleboxes has made it possible to up-code trains conveying steel and coal traffic. - 1962 June, “Talking of Trains: W.R. up-codes mineral and coal...