Tomorrow May 7th (Thursday), we will introduce changes in Epic to help transition to the ICD-10 coding scheme. HHS mandated us to switch to ICD-10-CM on October 1, 2015.
Changes you will notice in Epic:
- A “Diagnosis Calculator” will appear for diagnoses when a visit diagnosis requires additional specificity such as laterality, chronicity, care timing (initial, follow-up) etc. After you provide the necessary information, the appropriate code will be added to the system.
- A “Problem Calculator” will appear when you enter a new problem allowing you to select additional specificity (optional). E.g. when you search for ‘heart failure’ you will see options such ‘systolic’, ‘diastolic’, ‘chronic’ show up in the calculator options. You may choose to use these for additional specificity or continue to add ‘Heart failure’ as it is to the problem list.
To familiarize yourself with these ICD 10 changes prior to May 7th, please refer to the job aid and complete the video training and assessment at https://survey2.med.cornell.edu/perseus/wcmc/select/index.aspx
NOTE: Please complete the training even if you had taken it last year in 2014. After you log in using the link above, you will see a link labelled ”recertify” under the “completed on” column in case you have done this last year. Please click on this “recertify” hyperlink to get to the training video.
Why we are making this change: All healthcare organizations in the United States must start using the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code set on October 1, 2015. These changes are being made to increase your familiarity with more specific diagnosis ICD-10 codes to help ease the transition later this year. Payors will still continue to receive ICD 9 codes till the transition date based on our internal mappings of ICD 10 to ICD 9.
How this will affect you: Tomorrow you will start seeing ICD 10 terms when searching for diagnoses in places such as problem list, visit diagnoses and see the diagnosis calculator appear where a more detailed description of a disease is necessary.
Who to contact with Questions/Feedback: Send a message to the Epic Support Team by clicking on the “Epic Help” button in the top-right of Epic, or contact ITS Support at x64878 or email support@med.cornell.edu.
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