The Lake County Genealogical Society now is seeking volunteers to help index the census for Lake County when it is released in April. Once the indexing is complete, users will be able to locate a person of interest among the 132 million names in the census. Once the indexing work is completed, its contents will be available for free for anyone wishing to access it.
Many healthcare organization are going forward with their conversion plans, even with the Health and Human Services’ delay of the ICD-10 compliance to be ready by October 1, 2013.
Simba Information predicts publishing products and services will grow in 2012 by at least 3%. This increase will be led by the legal, science/technical and medical segments. The leading delivery method is print and electronic books closely followed by online services and abstracting/indexing.
ZirMed has made their mark as a provider of revenue cycle and information solutions for healthcare and now have launched www.StartStopICD10.com in response to the February 14th announcement by the Center of Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) of a re-examination of the ICD-10 timeline.
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has released a preview version of a SNOMED CT to ICD-10-CM map to automatically generate ICD-10-CM codes from clinical data entered into electronic health records (EHRs).
Many are concerned about the delay in the ICD-10 compliance deadline and worry that in actuality, it won't improve readiness and could even harm other health reform efforts.
Gateway EDI is continuing their training and credentialing in the medical coding industry regardless of the delay of the October 2013 deadline for complete ICD-10 transition.
The Medical Group Management Association wants the Department of Health and Human Services to do more than delay ICD-10 implementation, they believe additional steps should be included in the ICD-10 timeline for what they call “due diligence.”
The topic of every conversation in healthcare organizations far and wide is the delay in the ICD-10 implementation. The pro-ICD-10 crowd insists ICD-10 should not be delayed and their voices are getting louder.
A recent survey by Edifecs reports that about two-thirds of health care professionals do not believe a delay in ICD-10 implementation will improve readiness for the new coding standards. This is disheartening considering U.S. health care organizations are working to transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 code sets to accommodate codes for new diseases and procedures. The switch from about 14,000 codes for about 69,000 codes was supposed to be done by October 1, 2013.