AHIMA March 10, 2021
The World Health Assembly formally adopted the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) Eleventh Revision (ICD-11) in 2019. It will officially go into effect on January 1, 2022 at which time the World Health Organization’s (WHO) member nations can begin reporting morbidity and mortality statistics using ICD-11. It is hard to believe that countries around the world have been utilizing ICD-10 since its adoption in 1990. Given advancements in health science and medical practice over the last 30 years, the WHO has updated the classification for the 21st century with the goal to better reflect contemporary medicine while aligning it with enhancements in information technology—including electronic health records (EHRs). This is demonstrated by the fact that ICD-11 contains 17,000 codes in...
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