A Melamedia Coordinating EHR Incentives with HIPAA seminar warns "Failure to coordinate EHR adoption with mandated HIPAA electronic upgrades may end up costing adopters much more than the new incentives."
The most glaring example of the risk: HIPAA transactions (ANSI 5010) must be upgraded by Jan 1, 2012, and ICD-10 coding must be used by Oct 1, 2013.
The danger is that organizations - lured by the federal money - will rush to install EHR systems by 2011 with little or no thought as to how those systems will function with their other computer systems.
In Transitioning to ICD-10-CM/PCS— An Academic Timeline, AHIMA
ICD-10-CM is an alphanumeric diagnostic coding system containing 68,065 codes (14,025 diagnosis codes in ICD-9-CM).
ICD-10-PCS is an alphanumeric procedure classification system used for inpatient hospital settings only. It contains 72,589 procedures codes (3,824 ICD-9-CM procedures codes).
Seven characters, alpha or numeric, in the medical and surgical section carry the following meaning, in order: section, body system, root operation, body part, approach, device, and qualifier.
16 sections are coded for specific to types of procedures that are performed; the World Health Organization (WHO) lists 22 chapters that classify diseases and other health problems .
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