Four takeaways that AHIMA says can help ICD-10 preparations
Date: Jun 07, 2013 Healthcare vendor TrustHCS and American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) surveyed 300 HIM professionals on ICD-10 preparation late last year and released the results in the TrustHCS State of HIM Report.
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ICD-11 is coming in 2015 - sort of
Date: Apr 26, 2013 Donna Pickett, medical systems administrator at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)/National Center for Health Statistics, updates the 2013 AHIMA ICD-10-CM/PCS and Computer-Assisted Coding Summit on the development of ICD-11.
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ICD-101: How much ICD-10 training are you going to need?
Date: Apr 22, 2013 No matter where you are in planning or implementing your ICD-10 transition, you need to figure out a training and education plan now.
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How medical coders can transition their organizations and careers
Date: Nov 23, 2012 It's been a slow week for ICD-10 developments. All that turkey and midnight shopping has kept people occupied.
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ICD-10 Impact Assessment: Taking the first step to reaching implementation
Date: Oct 05, 2012 This week started out with the two-year countdown to ICD-10 implementation on Oct. 1, 2014. To mark the occasion, I modified an an eight-phase timeline created by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA).
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It's Oct. 1, and do you know where your ICD-10 transition plans are?
Date: Oct 01, 2012 We are now two years away from the deadline for ICD-10 implementation. That seems like a long time but the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) gave us an extra year because of a state of unreadiness. So today is a good day to get your ICD-10 transition project on track.
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Federal government releases new batch of public comments on ICD-10 compliance date
Date: May 11, 2012 You can understand why I was less than impressed with the lack of public comment attached to proposed ICD-10 compliance date delay.
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The delay means another year of ICD-10 conferences
Date: Apr 20, 2012 When the Deartment of Health and Human Services (HHS) considered the impact of delaying ICD-10 implementation, I wonder if it considered that more time would give everyone more time to plan and attend ICD-10 conferences.
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ICD-10 Timeline: How to take advantage of the delay
Date: Apr 18, 2012 It's not hard to imagine that delaying ICD-10 implementation for a year could help any healthcare organization. As long as they take the time to get it right instead of procrastinating.
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Will healthcare organizations create dueling deadlines?
Date: Apr 17, 2012 Dual coding made a brief appearance Monday at American Health Information Management Association's (AHIMA) 2012 ICD-10 Summit.
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