CloCkWeRX
commented
11 years ago suggests
The differences between ICD-9 and ICD-10 are significant and physicians and practice management staff need to start educating themselves now about this major change so that they will be able to meet the October 1, 2014 compliance deadline. ICD-10-CM codes are the ones designated for use in documenting diagnoses. They are 3-7 characters in length and total 68,000, while ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes are 3-5 digits in length and number over 14,000. The ICD-10-PCS are the procedure codes and they are alphanumeric, 7 characters in length, and total approximately 87,000, while ICD-9-CM procedure codes are only 3-4 numbers in length and total approximately 4,000 codes. Moving to ICD-10 is expected to impact all physicians. Due to the increased number of codes, the change in the number of characters per code, and increased code specificity, this transition will require significant planning, training, software/system upgrades/replacements, as well as other necessary investments. Before the ICD-10 codes can be used however, physicians and others in the health care community had to transition to use of the new version of HIPAA transaction standards known as 5010 by January 1, 2012, as the current version, 4010, does not accommodate use of the ICD-10 codes.
camwebb
In order to get data extracts up and running, we need to investigate and automate the mapping of ICD10 terms to ICD9 terms, to better leverage DOID (http://www.berkeleybop.org/ontologies/owl/DOID).