Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Federally-Mandated Anything


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Federally-Mandated Medical Coding Gums Up IT Ops
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  "The change over from a medical coding system in use since the 1970s to an updated version that adds more than 50,000 new
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7-character codes is being compared to Y2K as an IT project that is nearly impossible to complete on time. ICD-10, which replaces ICD-9, adds far more granularity to medical diagnosis and treatment.

For example, ICD-9 has one code for a finger amputation. In contrast, ICD-10 has a code for every finger and every section of every finger. An 'unfunded mandate,' the change over to ICD-10 codes is a multi-year project for hospitals, state Medicaid organizations, and insurance providers. The effort, which affects dozens of core systems, is taxing IT operational budgets at a time when shops are already under the gun to implement electronic health records." - Slashdot

Government, where you can have 95% well meaning employees, but a 99% failure rate..

6 comments:

BobG said...

"If it ain't broke, we'll fix it until it is."
- Federal government

Anonymous said...

"An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications." - Sum Gai
GrinfilledCelt

TimO said...

Are they still going to do the re-coding in Cobol??
;-)

Rodger the Real King of France said...

DB III

Anonymous said...

So does that mean you can get the middle knuckle amputated but keep the outer knuckle?

Anonymous said...

then they add a code "1234" at the end.

which means: "Or something"

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