EHR Intelligence February 11, 2015
Healthcare organizations will need to start getting very serious about ICD-10 over the next few months as the October 1, 2015 deadline settles firmly into place as the expected go-live date for the newly detailed code set. With Congressional backing secured, CMS readiness affirmed, and a growing number of stakeholders chomping at the bit, ICD-10 may finally be making the shift from the theoretical to the very urgently real.
Despite having several years to prepare for the possibility of ICD-10 implementation, healthcare organizations are facing the same old fears related to clinical documentation improvement, workflow adjustments, the impact to the revenue cycle, and the shrinking length of time to get ready for the big day. As October quickly approaches, what...