ICD-10 Implementation: Objects on the Horizon Are Closer Than You Think

Author:

Daryl Dickhudt, Paul Steinichen, Jordan Battani

Limited resources, competing priorities and inflexible deadlines mean that health care organizations must take a disciplined and proactive approach to ICD-10 remediation in order to succeed. Although the long-term benefits of ICD-10, in the form of improved data capture, reporting capability, public health and international comparisons, quality and outcomes measurement, and effective automation of clinical documentation are clear, in the near term pragmatic organizations will approach ICD-10 remediation as a compliance and regulatory requirement.

Health care organizations should be completing assessment and planning activities soon, focusing right now on the challenges posed by complex business and system remediation and testing activities, organizational and system migration timelines and how to manage the practical requirement to operate under both ICD-9 and ICD-10 during a prolonged transition period.

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