Re: [Gnumed-devel] Request for comment: icd10-database

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 01:28:43AM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> Separately from the question of how best to import ICD-10 is the question of 
> the value that it offers. In Canada, it seems that the complexity of coding 
> under ICD-10 seemed justified for hospital care but not for doctors' 
> practices:
> 
>       http://www.fortherecordmag.com/archives/ftr_120808p20.shtml
> 
> Has anyone used both ICD-9 and ICD-10 to be able to comment?

BTW, Germany is also charging ahead with making Disease
Management Programmes more complex despite knowing it's been
proven to not improve health care.

But everything is formally going to be very fair, as usual.

Karsten
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