ICD-10 news and information

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has introduced a Senate version of the Cutting Costly Codes Act of 2013, a bill aimed at blocking HHS from implementing the ICD-10 diagnostic and procedural codes, which it is scheduled to do on Oct. 1, 2014.
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The creation of the WEDI ICD-10 State Collaborative Initiative was announced last week in Las Vegas during the annual national conference of the not-for-profit Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange.
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Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital in Whittier, Calif., is laying the groundwork for its next big advances in information technology.
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Modern Healthcare's Washington bureau chief Jessica Zigmond talks with Dr. Susan Turney, president and CEO of the MGMA-ACMPE.
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Regarding “Leap to ICD-11 not recommended: AMA board”: Our government is systematically decimating the practice of medicine in the U.S. It is past time to acknowledge the real costs and challenges of electronic documentation and the financial and physical toll our government has placed...
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It's the American Medical Association's policy to “vigorously work to stop the implementation” of the ICD-10 diagnostic and procedural codes, but a new informational report from the AMA board of trustees suggests that skipping straight to ICD-11 may not be a good idea.
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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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