Is your organization still dragging its feet on ICD-10 planning and implementation? Fear not. Help is only a click away. Healthcare Information and Management Systems (HIMSS) and the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) have jointly developed and released “ICD-10 Critical Pathway for Getting Started – 2012 and Beyond,” a free, online tool that details the steps that healthcare providers must follow in the next 20 months (February 2012 to October 2013) to meet the ICD-10 coding conversion compliance deadline of October 1, 2013. Follow the timeline in the critical path tool, and you should be good to go.
Access the toolkit in .pdf format at http://tinyurl.com/88g46ss.