U.S. coding industry company,
ICD10monitor, and
Talk Ten Tuesdays have launched
a new series, which will continue through November, focusing on the need for the coding industry's early preparation for the new ICD-11 code set.
On November 5, the WHO's Dr Robert Jakob participated in an
ICD10Monitor "Talk Ten Tuesdays" broadcast, hosted by Chuck Buck:
01 January 2022 is the earliest date from which the World Health Organization can begin accepting data recorded using the new ICD-11 code sets.
According to Dr Jakob's contribution to Tuesday's podcast, Japan has already completed translation of ICD-11, is expected to be one of the earliest implementers and could be ready to roll out ICD-11 within three years.
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Although the U.S. did not implement its clinical modification of ICD-10 (ICD-10-CM) for morbidity use until October 2015, the use of ICD-10 for U.S. mortality records was in implemented in 1999.
Unlike the U.S. clinical modification, no rule making is required for implementation of ICD editions for
mortality use.
The
National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics Subcommittee on Standards (NCVHS) ICD-11 Expert Roundtable Meeting, held on August 6-7, 2019, projected the earliest date for implementation of ICD-11 for mortality records is
2023-25.
The
NCVHS ICD-11 Expert Roundtable Committee is in the process of drafting a letter to the Secretary, HHS, which is expected to include among its Key Points that NCVHS recommends urgently conducting research to inform the path forward for accelerating adoption and implementation of ICD-11 for mortality use in the United States [1].
1 Preliminary Meeting Summary: International Classification of Diseases, Eleventh Revision (ICD-11) Expert Roundtable Preliminary Meeting Summary Held August 6-7, 2019 Subcommittee on Standards National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) https://ncvhs.hhs.gov/wp-content/up...ds-Subcommittee-ICD-11-Meeting-10-10-2019.pdf
Around 25 member states were licensed by the WHO to modify ICD-10 for country specific use for morbidity records. The WHO is still formulating policies around the licensing of ICD-11 for the development of national modifications for morbidity use.
U.S. advocates and patient groups will need to keep a close eye on
National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics Subcommittee on Standards (NCVHS) meetings and letters to the Secretary, HHS.
The NCVHS meeting page is here:
https://ncvhs.hhs.gov/meetings-meeting/
The next Full Committee Meeting is scheduled for November 13-14, 2019:
https://ncvhs.hhs.gov/meetings/full-committee-meeting-2/
The Tentative Agenda is here:
https://ncvhs.hhs.gov/wp-content/up...ull-Committee-Meeting-November-13-14-2019.pdf
An update on the work of the
NCVHS ICD-11 Expert Roundtable Committee is tabled for Meeting Day One:
Extract from Agenda Day One (Wednesday, November 13):
9:30 a.m. ICD-11 Follow-up and Action Rich Landen & Bill Stead
- Update from August Expert Roundtable Meeting
- Review of meeting summary
10:45 a.m. Action on ICD-11 Full Committee
- Letter with recommendations to the Secretary and attachments
These are public meetings and agendas, recordings, full transcripts, meeting summaries and meeting materials are publicly posted on the NCVHS Meetings pages.
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Note: Since its initial launch, in 2007, the U.S. has maintained high level participation in the ICD-11 development process and its ongoing update and improvement:
The U.S. provided representatives from professional and scientific organisations, academics and practitioners for the ICD-11 Topic Advisory Groups (TAGs) and sub working groups.
Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research developed the web based iCAT Collaborative Authoring Platform on which ICD-11 was developed.
The U.S. has representatives on the ICD-11 governance committees via the WHO-FIC Network; the Medical Scientific Advisory Committee (MSAC); the Classifications and Statistics Advisory Committee (CSAC); the Mortality and Morbidity (MbRF) Reference Groups; and the Functioning and Disability Reference Group, which have oversight for the annual updating and ongoing improvement of the global ICD-11 edition.
Dr Geoffrey Reed (WHO, Geneva; Columbia University) is Senior Project Lead for the ICD-11 Mental Health chapter and a member of the MSAC;
Steven Hyman, MD (former Director of the
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and former
DSM-5 Task Force member) chaired the Topic Advisory Group for Mental Health;
Michael B First, MD has served as a key external advisor to the Mental Health chapter.
Harold Pincus, MD co-chaired the ICD-11 Quality and Patient Safety Topic Advisory Group.
Dr Christopher Chute (John Hopkins University) chaired the ICD-11 Revision Steering Committee, was a member of the
Joint Task Force and now co-chairs the MSAC;
Donna Pickett (Chief, Classifications and Public Health Data Standards, NCHS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Head, Collaborating Center for the WHO-FIC in North America) co-chaired the Morbidity TAG, was a member of the Joint Task Force and is a member of the CSAC;
Dr Robert Anderson (Chief, Mortality Statistics Branch Division of Vital Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) was a member of the Joint Task Force and co-chaired the Mortality TAG;
Cille Kennedy (ASPE) co-chaired the ICD-11 Functioning TAG;
Sue Bowman (Senior Director of Coding Policy and Compliance, AHIMA) is a representative on the ICD-11 Morbidity Reference Group (MbRF).