Many healthcare professionals, including medical coders and IT personnel who must upgrade systems to accommodate HIPAA 5010 and ICD-10, would be relieved to see the ICD-10 deadline adjusted, according to a column by Tom Sullivan in ICD-10Watch.
Mr. Sullivan cites a post by John Halamka, MD, CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and CIO at Harvard Medical School, in his Life as a Healthcare CIO blog, where he proposes ICD-10 could be deferred until 2016 to give IT professionals more time to create EHRs, HIEs and registries in preparation for ACOs. He also cites an ICD-10Watch reader poll that found 70 percent of respondents have not yet managed HIPAA 5010 compliance.
According to his blog post, however, CMS is continuing to implement the program based on the Oct. 1, 2013 compliance deadline in the final rule published Jan. 16, 2009.
Read Tom Sullivan's post on ICD-10 in ICD-10Watch.
Read more on ICD-10:
-AAPC and CMS to Host ICD-10 "Code-a-Thon"
-4 Predictions on the Switch to ICD-10
-AAPC: Physician Practices Should Start Planning Now for ICD-10
Mr. Sullivan cites a post by John Halamka, MD, CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and CIO at Harvard Medical School, in his Life as a Healthcare CIO blog, where he proposes ICD-10 could be deferred until 2016 to give IT professionals more time to create EHRs, HIEs and registries in preparation for ACOs. He also cites an ICD-10Watch reader poll that found 70 percent of respondents have not yet managed HIPAA 5010 compliance.
According to his blog post, however, CMS is continuing to implement the program based on the Oct. 1, 2013 compliance deadline in the final rule published Jan. 16, 2009.
Read Tom Sullivan's post on ICD-10 in ICD-10Watch.
Read more on ICD-10:
-AAPC and CMS to Host ICD-10 "Code-a-Thon"
-4 Predictions on the Switch to ICD-10
-AAPC: Physician Practices Should Start Planning Now for ICD-10