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The move to ICD-11
The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD) is the bedrock for health statistics. The ICD provides a common vocabulary for recording, reporting and monitoring health problems regardless of what country a patient lives in or language spoken. In June the WHO released its 11th revision: the ICD-11. With 7.4 billion people speaking nearly 7,000 languages, if a doctor in another country cannot read a person’s medical records, at least they will know what the ICD code means.
18 years
is how long ago the ICD-10 was launched and with over a decade in the making, the new ICD-11 version is a vast improvement.
January 1, 2022
is the day that the World Health Assembly has chosen for ICD-11 adoption to go into effect. However, adoption won’t happen overnight as thousands of coders from healthcare organizations of all types and sizes will
require retraining.
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participants are taking part in 112,383 code assignments.
31
is the number of countries involved in ICD-11 field testing.
55,000
is the number of codes in ICD-11 vs. 14,400 in ICD-10.
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