13 Facts About ICD-10

ICD-10 is the 10th revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, a medical classification list by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Work on ICD-10 began in 1983, became endorsed by the Forty-third World Health Assembly in 1990, and was first used by member states in 1994.

The unchanged international version of ICD-10 is used in 117 countries for performing cause of death reporting and statistics.

ICD-10-AM has been adopted by New Zealand, the Republic of Ireland, Saudi Arabia and several other countries.

ICD-10 was first introduced into the psychiatric health service system on 1 January 1994.

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ICD-10-GM was developed between 2003 and 2004, by the German Institute for Medical Documentation and Information.

Dutch translation of ICD-10 is ICD10-nl, which was created by the WHO-FIC Network in 1994.

ICD-10 was implemented in July 2005 under the auspice of the National ICD-10 Implementation Task Team which is a joint task team between the National Department of Health and the Council for Medical Schemes.

ICD-10-TM is a Thai language version based on the 2016 ICD-10.

An unusual feature of the index of ICD-10-TM is that it is bilingual, containing both Thai and English trails.

All HIPAA "covered entities" were required to make the change; a pre-requisite to ICD-10-CM is the adoption of EDI Version 5010 by January 1, 2012.

The alphanumeric coding in ICD-10 is an improvement from ICD-9 which had a limited number of codes and a restrictive structure.

Early concerns in the implementation of ICD-10 included the cost and the availability of resources for training healthcare workers and professional coders.