CIOs don't feel prepared for ICD-10

Now here's a big surprise: A new trade group survey has found that healthcare CIOs are a bit worried about the coming switch from ICD-9 to ICD-10 code sets. The survey, which was conducted by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, included responses from about 72 hospital CIOs.

CIO respondents brought up a number of concerns about how vendors were responding to ICD-10. About 55 percent, in fact, told CHIME that vendor readiness (and sadly, cooperation) was likely to be one of the biggest hurdles in achieving compliance.

Sixty percent of CIOs said that their HIT vendors haven't updated them on proposed new regulations and timelines for ICD-10/5010 implementations. Worse, about 72 percent of CIOs said they don't know if ICD-10 upgrades will be included in annual software grades.
What's more, CIOs said they don't know if the ICD-10 upgrades will cost them money or not, and whether those charges will be covered by "federal and state" clauses in contracts, as they usually are with government-related upgrades.

To learn more about this study:
- read this Healthcare IT News article [1]

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