01.03.2016 | Transactional Processing Systems
Managing the Impact of the ICD-10 Transition on a Data Warehouse
Erschienen in: Journal of Medical Systems | Ausgabe 3/2016
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The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) mandated transition from the 9th revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-9) to the 10th Edition (ICD-10) on October 1, 2015. ICD-10 differs from ICD-9 in several important ways. First, the total number of codes is larger (approximately 68,000 vs. 13,000). Second, the ICD-9 codes were exclusively numeric, whereas ICD-10 uses alphanumeric codes. Finally, ICD-10 enables the specification of both laterality and the combination of multiple diagnoses in one ICD-10 code (i.e. diabetes mellitus with renal failure, or pressure ulcer – right elbow). …Anzeige