The ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee met March 9-10 this year to discuss proposals for new or modified ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS codes. All ICD-10-PCS code proposals presented would, if approved,…
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Improving ICD-10-CM Coding for Social Determinants of Health
Ensuring adequate capture of SDOH information is essential for improving healthcare quality and reduce costs.
Why Electronic Case Reporting Is Vital During Pandemics
The onset of COVID-19, it has exposed limitations within the United States’ public health surveillance system in a significant way where timeliness, completeness, and accuracy of data is critical in…
Interoperability Needs to Be About Populations, Not Just Individual Patients
Our collective thinking about interoperability is still immature when it comes to the population-level use cases needed to drive outcomes for value-based care, especially those related to reducing the cost…