When embarking on enterprise data initiatives, such as Meaningful Use, BI or supporting the conversion to ICD-10, success is very often correlated to the degree of business involvement. For enterprise data initiatives, there are three types of business (here meaning non-IT) involvement required: Stakeholder involvement (these, of course, are the people for whom we are […]
Pete Stiglich
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Is your ICD-10 Impact Analysis capacity in place yet??
The conversion to ICD-10 will be of a larger scale (just from the IT perspective – not including all the retraining of medical coders and other business changes) than the Y2K conversion. With Y2K, we just had to find those 2 digit year fields and change them to 4 digits. In addition to expanding the […]
Semantic Web Technologies for ICD-9 to ICD-10 Conversion
ICD-10 code mapping is not for the faint at heart. With a ten fold increase in the pure volume of codes, healthcare organizations will need a few tricks up their sleeves to pull this off. The mapping between ICD-9 and ICD-10 in many cases is not a simple 1:1 mapping. For example, ICD-9-CM code 274.02 […]
Meta Data Management and Migration to ICD-10
Migrating from ICD-9 to ICD-10 will be a high stakes, costly, and highly complex effort impacting a large part of every provider or payer enterprise. Apart from the complexity of mapping from ICD-9 to ICD-10 (many are not 1:1 mappings), major changes to business processes, policies, retraining of medical coders, education of clinical staff, etc., […]