ICD-9 is truly outdated in terms of procedures and technology. However, he said, the cost of implementing ICD-10 and transforming the way such granular data is gathered and entered into an electronic medical record may never be recovered or returned in savings.
ICD-10 could be a squandered opportunity to make data classification and collection more meaningful, one that may not present itself for another several decades.
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