Why Didn’t ICD-10 Implementation Bring Down Europe...

Published Jan 10 2012 by The Health Care Blog

Why Didn’t ICD-10 Implementation Bring Down Europe’s Health System?

By Don Fluckinger

We’re seeing a lot of pushback against ICD-10 implementation, with the American Medical Association’s “vigorous opposition” at the extreme. Gloom and doom types equate to potential IT disaster to Y2K. Ever since watching T. Bedirhan...

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ICD-10 comments suggest longer delays, new code systems

With one organization decrying delays and another supporting a different system entirely, time has notquelled the debate. Find out who's saying what. ... [ Published 5 hours ago by Modern Medicine ]

Entities: ICD-10

First Reported 16 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 2 Documents

ICD-10 comment avalanche buries HHS

_ The end of the comment period on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services? (HHS) proposal to delay the compliance date for switching to on May 17 spurred several comments, suggestions, and criticisms from industry leaders and stakeholders. The ... [ Published 6 hours ago by Modern Medicine ]

Entities: ICD-10, Avalanche, Cost-benefit analysis

First Reported 23 hours ago - Updated 23 hours ago - 1 Documents

ACP, WEDI Offer Input on Proposed Delay for ICD-10 Compliance

Last week, the American College of Physicians to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius suggesting that the agency use the proposed one-year delay of the ICD-10 compliance deadline to consider transitioning to the Systemized Nomenclature of Medicine-Clinical ... [ Published 23 hours ago by IHealthBeat ]

Entities: ICD-10, Deadline, Health Care

First Reported May 21 2012 - Updated May 22 2012 - 2 Documents

Recent HIPAA Conviction Clarifies: Ignorance of the Law(s) Not an Excuse

Earlier this month, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the conviction of Huping Zhou, a former employee of the UCLA Health System, for illegally accessing protected health information in violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability ... [ Published May 22 2012 by JD Supra ]

Entities: Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act, Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo, Conviction, Ignorance, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

First Reported May 22 2012 - Updated May 22 2012 - 1 Documents

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Johns Hopkins Hospitals Offering ICD-10 Readiness Course

All six of Johns Hopkins Medicine’s academic and community hospitals will be offering a course in ICD-10 readiness for medical record coders. The course, Anatomy & Physiology for Coders, presented by medical record coding, audit, and educational services ... [ Published May 22 2012 by Healthcare Informatics Online ]

Entities: ICD-10, American Health Information Management Association, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

First Reported May 22 2012 - Updated May 22 2012 - 1 Documents

Coding upgrades would make a difference

Modernizing an antiquated system is a primary reason why ICD-10, used in virtually every other developed country, should be implemented in the United States. The additional, highly specific ICD-10 codes will not only decrease inaccuracies; these codes ... [ Published May 22 2012 by Cleveland Live ]

Entities: ICD-10, Lynne Thomas, American Health Information Management Association

First Reported May 21 2012 - Updated May 21 2012 - 1 Documents

AMA calls for 2-year delay of ICD-10 enforcement

The agency overseeing the transition to the new codes has proposed a one-year delay from Oct. 1, 2013, to Oct. 1, 2014. But the AMA wants CMS to take more time to evaluate whether an alternative diagnosis code set is more appropriate than a full transition ... [ Published May 21 2012 by American Medical News ]

Entities: ICD-10, American Health, Cost-benefit analysis, Information Management

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