ICD-10 news and information

Joseph Conn, reporter for Modern Healthcare, talks about the industry transition to ICD-10, among other things, with Stanley Nachimson, principal for Nachimson Advisors, at the HIMSS 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibition, in New Orleans.
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By early 2004, Eric Drew was supposed to die. His doctors thought he would. So did Richard Gibson, who was an employee at the Seattle cancer treatment center where Drew had been a leukemia patient since the prior September.
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What's hot in healthcare information technology? A lot.
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The American Medical Association has repeatedly called on the feds to delay for another year the scheduled Oct. 1, 2014 compliance deadline for ICD-10. Meanwhile, the AMA is evaluating a proposal to leapfrog from the ICD-9 codes now in use to ICD-11 codes, which are under development and may be...
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Providers aren't worried about what IT is doing to help smooth the transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10—in fact, most providers, despite the size or type of their organization, are pleased with current ICD-10 offerings, like computer-assisted coding technology.
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Chief information officers in healthcare are caught between their immediate concerns and the unknown challenges of future healthcare payment reforms, but without all the information they'll need to steer their course.
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The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, the Chicago-based trade group for health information technology developers and users, has encouraged the CMS to stay the course on nationwide adoption of ICD-10.
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The Federation of American Hospitals supports goals outlined by the CMS to harmonize reporting of clinical quality measures, but warned that selected measures should be field-tested before being implemented as part of national quality reporting and payment programs.
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How are ICD-10 preparations coming along?The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange and the CMS want to know.
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The American Medical Association reaffirmed its commitment "to vigorously work" against the nationwide adoption of ICD-10 diagnostic and procedural codes while evaluating the feasibility of skipping directly to ICD-11 codes, which are expected to be introduced in 2015.
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