The 10th edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) is getting closer, and some physician concerns are becoming more concrete. Will it be difficult to get the codes right? Will ...

ICD-10, an international disease coding system, is mandated for adoption in the U.S. by Oct. 1, 2014, and will require health care organizations to switch from the soon-to-be outdated ICD-9. Srividya ...

The International Classification of Diseases, or ICD, is a classification system for all physical and mental diseases produced by the World Health Organization (WHO). It’s used for diagnosis, research ...

After more than 30 years, a key medical tracking system now lists Gulf War Illness as a formal diagnosis in international ...

This is a comprehensive table of nephrology ICD-10 codes used by researchers and healthcare professionals and personnel – nurses, medical coders, physicians, et al. This table has been curated for ...

Many rare diseases don't have an ICD code, and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) at NIH is exploring ways to best expand those codes to benefit rare disease patients and ...

An Icelandic study confirms an ICD-10 algorithm accurately identifies major GI bleeding in anticoagulated patients. Read on ...

In August 2021, the internet was swept up in another viral challenge as a plethora of videos went viral that showed people attempting to walk across increasingly higher levels of milk crates. As ...

A new study confirms ICD-10 code L80's high accuracy in identifying vitiligo, especially when combined with treatment data, enhancing clinical research.

Climate change is contributing to the inequitable suffering of billions of people around the world. Driven by human greenhouse gas emissions, climate-related hazards -- including heat waves, floods, ...