Taxonomy Used to Diagnose

May 30, 2011 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Taxonomy Used to Diagnose

The American Society of Hypertension, Inc. (ASH) and the ASH Specialist Program Inc. have announced the approval of an official health care taxonomy code for Designated Specialists in Clinical Hypertension from the American Medical Association National Uniform Claims Committee.

News-Medical brought this to our attention in their article, “ASH announces approval of official health care taxonomy code for Designated Specialists.”

This new taxonomy code will help recognize those instances when the services of a Hypertension Specialist are required for patient care and/or diagnostic and treatment procedures.

It is nice to see taxonomy being used to help combat hypertension. Of course, we already knew the value of a solid, standards-based taxonomy.

Melody K. Smith

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.