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Criteria |
ICD-9-CM alone |
SNOMEDŽ CT alone |
IMO Problem IT with links to SNOMEDŽ CT and ICD-9 |
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Ensures billable codes are entered onto chart | |
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Unique ID to maintain stable term-to-code and code-to-term mappings over time |
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Preferred map from terms to administrative codes (every term has a billable code) and from codes to terms |
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Clinician friendly terms
(vernacular, common, abbreviations, acronyms, eponyms) |
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Patient friendly terms |
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Provides different maps for clinicians, coders, and patients |
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Linkage to SNOMEDŽ CT, MeSH, UMLS |
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AHIMA review of explicit maps |
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Captures clinical intent |
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Support for longitudinal care tagging |
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Updates per year |
1-2 | 2 | 10 |
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New code request turnaround time |
1+ years | months+ | ~6 weeks |
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