There is no doubt that the U.S. healthcare system will transition to ICD-10. Whether it happens in 2011, as proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), or at a later date, it is ...

Among the many current changes in the healthcare industry is a transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 codes. One of the major changes of ICD-10 is an increase of specificity, as it has 68,000 codes compared ...

The transition to ICD-10-CM has been a pivotal development in healthcare coding, offering increased specificity and improved clinical data capture compared to its predecessor. This enhanced coding ...

SNOMED was so important to healthcare's switch from ICD-9 to ICD-10 medical coding, ONC Chief Farzad Mostashari, MD says, that he was willing to support the one-year delay to achieve the necessary ...

The transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 will require collaboration between healthcare providers, vendors and consultants to be successful, according to an ICD-10 Watch report. Collaboration can lead to ...

For the most part, the largest U.S. healthcare providers have been very organized and prepared for ICD-10 implementation. Is there anything we can learn from their experience? New York University ...

The granddaddy of coding switches, Y2K on steroids and a hospital’s worst nightmare — these phrases and more have described ICD-10 and the potential problems it could cause for a hospital. However, ...

With the flip of the calendar to 2012, the ICD-10 implementation deadline of Oct. 1, 2013, suddenly appears very closer. To be sure, the wheels are turning for the conversion of the current Medicare ...

Providers need to put more of an emphasis on planning and organization when it comes to large implementation efforts such as ICD-10 and HIPAA 5010, researchers from Georgetown University and the ...

General Dynamics Information Technology has formed a new partnership with TIBCO Software Inc. to help customers with their HIPAA 5010 and International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced yesterday that it would require the use of the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10), set of diagnostic codes ...