Grab a photograph. Any photo. Then take it to a photocopier, and copy it. Call that copy an ICD-9 code. Then take that copy (the one called "ICD-9 code") and copy it on the same photocopier. That copy ...

As the buzz at HIMSS this year indicated, ICD-10 is on the short list of things keeping hospital executives up at night. From 17,000 codes under ICD-9 to 155,000 under the new regulation, ICD-10 takes ...

Many hospitals and practices have been putting off IT upgrades for the conversion to ICD-10 diagnosis codes in 2013, according to the Wall Street Journal Venture Capital Blog. Hospitals and practices ...

The required Oct. 1 conversion to the ICD-10 coding system will be worth the costs and headaches, supporters say. With up to seven alphanumeric characters in ICD-10 compared with a maximum of four ...

The timing of ICD-10 may still be up in the air, but eventually, the transition will call for myriad of changes, some of which organizations should consider outsourcing, and some they should not. "We ...