The International Classification of Diseases, or ICD, is a classification system for all physical and mental diseases produced by the World Health Organization (WHO). It’s used for diagnosis, research ...

Unless there is another delay, the United States will transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 in all health care settings on October 1, 2015. This will not be a gradual transition as there will be no grace ...

The "lookup-before-coding" method allows AI to review past cases, improving ICD code accuracy and outperforming physicians and baseline AI models. Smaller open-source AI models, when using the lookup ...

No two patients are the same. Furthermore, therapists know well that no two patients with dementia are ever the same. We have long awaited greater specificity in coding for the persons we serve daily ...

Ever receive the exact right message at the right time? It happened to me last night at 9:21 p.m. EST. A simple email of thanks and kindness landed in my inbox. A thanks, really at that time ...

Coding in sports medicine generally uses sports-specific coding systems rather than the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), because of superior applicability to the profile of injury and ...

SILVER SPRING, Md.--Researchers are proposing a new scientifically correct and medically actionable disease classification system for obesity, according to a paper published online in Obesity, the ...

Outcomes for patients with metastatic breast cancer (MBC) are continually improving as more effective treatments become available. Granular data sets of this unique population are lacking, and the ...