Why we’re not ready to plan ICD-11 implementation
Carl Natale, ICD10 Watch
“While you’re wandering around HIMSS12 this week, you’re probably going to hear a lot of talk about jumping right into ICD-11 codes.
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ICD-10 inches closer to delay, ICD-11 in the wings
Tom Sullivan, Healthcare IT News
“The case for leapfrogging ICD-10 and holding out for ICD-11 just got a lot more curious. And though it’s not here yet, when ICD-11 is ready, it will be something ICD-10 cannot be: A 21st Century classification system.
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Hospitals struggle with switch to ICD-10
Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“As if upgrading the nation’s ICD-9 code set for diseases and treatment to ICD-10, with its many thousands more codes, were not enough of a challenge for health information managers at hospitals and health systems across the country, now there’s this: ICD-11 is not far behind.
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AHIMA: ICD-11 on horizon, but need to get through ICD-10 first
Bob Mitchell, Cardiovascular Business
“Managing information in the 21st Century and whether to code or not to code was the keynote address presented Oct. 4 at the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) conference by T. Bedirhan Ustun, MD, PhD, team coordinator of classification, terminology and standards in the Department of Health statistics at the World Health Organization (WHO).
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Future SNOMED vs. ICD-11
Wes Rishel, Gartner
“Another interpretation might be that IHTSDO would map any given version of SNOMED to a specific version of ICD-11 and distribute ICD-11 along with SNOMED. Careful attention to the exact version of ICD-11 that was in use could permit using the SNOMED ontologies to manipulate data expressed in ICD-11.
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Semantic interoperability – Dream or reality?
Octavian Purcarea, Microsoft EMEA Health Blog
“Last week, European Commission and the Ministry of Health from Germany, with the support of Microsoft, organized a two days workshop on semantic interoperability in EHRs. The initiative was triggered by the work performed by 12 countries in the project epSOS – the large scale pilot conceiving and testing a EU shared EHR and ePrescribing solution.
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