Although the World Health Organization will begin developing ICD-11 codes in 2015, the United States should worry about making the transition to ICD-10 first, according to a CMIO report.
T. Bedirhan Ustun, MD, team coordinator of classification, terminology and standards in the department of health statistics at the WHO, spoke at AHIMA's 2011 conference, emphasizing that procrastinating over ICD-10 will negatively affect comparative research and global learning of health information management, according to the report.
Overall, Dr. Ustun said the transition to ICD-10 will have a positive impact on business applications and will ultimately lead to the best configurations of clinical documentation and electronic health records, according to the report.
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T. Bedirhan Ustun, MD, team coordinator of classification, terminology and standards in the department of health statistics at the WHO, spoke at AHIMA's 2011 conference, emphasizing that procrastinating over ICD-10 will negatively affect comparative research and global learning of health information management, according to the report.
Overall, Dr. Ustun said the transition to ICD-10 will have a positive impact on business applications and will ultimately lead to the best configurations of clinical documentation and electronic health records, according to the report.
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