ICD-10 news and information

Even with a year's grace period, many providers, payers and health information technology vendors are still running behind schedule for the massive conversion next year to ICD-10 codes.
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Here in Iowa, we like to get going early. That's particularly the case with my hospital.We started our EHR journey in 2004.
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In little more than 18 months, the U.S. healthcare industry is expected to join most of the industrialized world in the adoption of the International Classification of Diseases 10th Revision code system, which promises to be the biggest single-day switch in healthcare information technology since...
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George Hickman, executive vice president and chief information officer at Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center and chairman of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, discusses some strategic changes takiing place at CHIME, with Joseph Conn, reporter, at the HIMSS 2013 Annual...
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The CMS launched the eHealth initiative this week as a central repository for information on federal IT efforts.
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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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