ICD-10 Implementation and Interoperability
Look for a balanced approach between EMR vendor, other systems, and an integration strategy that is vendor neutral, enabling all impacted systems to work together to assist in the ICD-10 transition.
Look for a balanced approach between EMR vendor, other systems, and an integration strategy that is vendor neutral, enabling all impacted systems to work together to assist in the ICD-10 transition.
Health care providers should ensure that the EMR vendor is on track toward ICD-10 compliance, however they should not rely on their EMR vendor as the panacea. Most hospital systems we work with have many more ancillary systems in radiology, etc. that are also impacted, and the EMR isn't the core system of record (yet) for everything that goes on in a hospital.