Is there better than hamming code for correcting errors
I think the question hinges around the trade off of how heavily you code the information and the rate. Generally adding more parity bits will give better error detection/correction ability but it will reduce the communication rate since each each information word is being mapped into a longer code word. Because of this trade off, I am not sure you will find better codes than the mentioned code in terms of it having less parity bits while increasing error detection/correction ability.