With ICD-10 only a few months away, practices need to ensure that their electronic health record (EHR) vendor is ready for the transition. Only 40% of vendors indicated that their ICD-10 product ...

The ICD-10 implementation date was delayed not once or twice, but three times. And during that delay, global plans to move forward to ICD-11 are already in the works. The U.S. is set to transition to ...

The 10th edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) is getting closer, and some physician concerns are becoming more concrete. Will it be difficult to get the codes right? Will ...

Testing is going to make or break your ICD-10 transition. That is when you will find out if your project plan is working correctly. While there hasn't been a whole lot of ICD-10 testing done yet there ...

It's official. ICD-11 is the greatest thing since sliced bread. The American Medical Association (AMA) says so. OK, maybe I'm jumping the gun. But now that the AMA plans to evaluate the ICD-11 code ...

Republican Texas Rep. Ted Poe resurrected the Cutting Costly Codes Act early last week, and issued a press release to match, thereby sparking the usual suspects into advocacy for ICD-10 and calls for ...

Guess what? That feeling of overwhelm and dread of having to face another long or tortuous day on the job that we commonly call “burnout” is now recognized as a syndrome in an expanded definition in ...

Presenting data last week at the American Heart Association 2006 Scientific Sessions, lead investigator Dr Christine Albert (Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA) and colleagues report that acute ...