Information technology won't save healthcare | Modern Healthcare
Healthcare IT won't save healthcare industry, and other lettters
By Modern Healthcare | November 1, 2014
In response to the recent guest commentary “ICD-10 won't help on cost control”, the elephant in the room is much larger than the author suggests.
ICD-9 currently fails to provide accurate code diagnostic options for the patients I see in a medical practice. ICD-10 with its 69,000 codes still fails to provide options for accurate diagnosis. Thus, almost all patients are assigned both an incorrect and incomplete diagnosis of their medical condition.
In the world of medicine, new complexities, new diagnoses and new procedures are reported on a daily basis. Outcome measures are an attempt to relate the treatment to the disease, but in reality are seldom validated and almost never include all the variables that can alter outcomes. Because of the constantly changing understanding of disease, coding systems and their codes are years behind reality. Imprecise, inadequate codes give a completely inaccurate assessment of the actual activity and of the potential value (worth) of that activity.
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