March 22, 2012
The Case For Delaying Implementation Of The ICD-10 Coding System
American health care has a love-hate relationship with the venerable International Classification of Diseases (ICD),” begins a commentary released yesterday as a Web First by Health Affairs. Since 1977 the United States has relied on the ICD, Ninth Revision, for both research and billing, and has planned to adopt the ICD, Tenth Revision (ICD-10-CM), this […]
Tags: Christopher Chute, electronic health records, International Classification of Diseases, Kathleen Sebelius