ICD-10 Transition Overview – International Society for Disease Surveillance

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Monday, July 22, 2013, 2:30pm – 3:30pm US ET (18:30 – 19:30 GMT)

Hosts

ISDS Education and Training and Public Health Practice Committees

Presenter

Donna Pickett, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, OSELS/NCHS

Description

The U.S. transition to International Classification of Diseases 10th Revision (ICD-10-CM/PCS) on October 1, 2014 will have significant impact on public health entities. CDC’s ICD-10 Transition Workgroup is offering a training session that will provide an overview of the transition and an introduction to the new code sets. Specifically, the presentation will describe why the U.S. is transitioning to ICD-10 code sets, who is affected by the transition, what CDC is doing around the transition, key differences between ICD-9-CM and ICD-10 code sets, and what some of the implementation issues will be for public health entities.

Learning Objectives

  1. Attendees will be able to describe the transition’s impact to public health epidemiology, surveillance and statistical activities.
  2. Attendees will understand the key differences between ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM/PCS code sets.
  3. Attendees will be able to identify possible implementation issues for the transition.
  4. Attendees will understand how to leverage publically available tools and resources to assist their own transition activities.

Presentation Slides

Presentation Recording

Note: Due to technical difficulties the main presentation starts at minute 11 of the recording. Please feel free to skip to this point in the recording.

ICD-10 Transition Overview from ISDS on Vimeo.

Resources: ICD-10 Transition

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