ICD-10 news and information

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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Providers feel the impact of government regulations on many fronts. Margins are down, and the need to control costs is acute. Compliance requirements are snowballing — as is the potential for risk. But where there's risk, there's opportunity — and we're here to help. Our Provider...
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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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