N-CHIP User Group
Launch!
April 2012
Slide 1
Introductions
• Fort Drum Regional Health Planning Organization
• North Country Health Information Partnership
– Corey Zeigler, Dr. Steven Lyndaker, Kowsilliya Ramnaresh, Charles McArthur,
Serena Maupin, Davey Jones, David Pippen, John Wheeler
• Primary Care Development Corporation
– Alan Mitchell
– Mazdak Mazarei
• Vendor Representative
• Practices
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Agenda
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Introductions
Vendor presentation on product roadmap
N-CHIP presentation on ICD-10
“Breakout” sessions with peers from other practices
Sustainability planning
Next steps
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Vendor Presentation
• Product Roadmap
• ICD-10 support
• Q&A on key concepts
Slide 4
ICD-10
• What is it?
• What does it mean for your practice?
• What can N-CHIP and this user group do to help?
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ICD-10: What is it?
• “International Statistical Classification of Diseases
and Related Health Problems” (known as “ICD”)
• Medical classification codes to classify diseases
and a wide variety of symptoms, findings,
complaints, social circumstances, and external
causes of injury or disease
• Every health condition and procedure has a
category and code
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ICD-10: History and Timeline
ICD-1 released in 1900
ICD-9 released in 1970 – 17,000 diagnosis and
procedure codes
ICD-10 released in 1994 – 141,000 diagnosis and
procedure codes
ICD-11 is expected to be released by 2015
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ICD-10: What does it mean for your practice?
• Clinicians
– Will significantly change the clinical documentation for both diagnosis
and procedure
– The level of specificity required in order to assign a code is significantly
increased
– The conversion will have to be done by a clinician (requires clinical
judgment)
• Administrative staff
– Have to learn a new code-set language and more anatomy/medical
terminologies
– Have to convince clinicians that this is not just a coder/biller issue
• Costs
– software changes and consulting services to make the transition may be
considerable and need to be planned for
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ICD-10
• What does it mean for your practice?
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ICD-10: What can N-CHIP do to help?
• Staff of HIT specialists to assist in
– Regulatory changes
– Workflow redesign
– Training
– Technical support
– Advocacy
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ICD-10
• What can this user group do to help?
– Establish a network of collogues with a common
platform, knowledge and challenges to share ideas,
methods and solutions
– Have a larger voice with vendors and public policy
groups
– Pool or share resources to address common challenges,
ex. hire a consultant/vendor to assist all practices with
ICD-10 transition and share cost
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ICD-10
Resources
Link to ICD-10 Resource Guide
http://bit.ly/Hfagsx
Link to Resource Library
https://sharepoint.fdrhpo.org/public/nchipPublic
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Breakout Sessions
• Meet with your peers from other clinics
– Providers
– Nurses and clinical staff
– Billing, office management, front desk
• Discuss and document
– Significant challenges you have with your system
– Significant benefits of your system
• Things you do well
• Lessons learned
– How you can support each other in meeting your challenges,
solving problems?
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Sustainability Planning
• Is a user group valuable?
• What is needed to sustain it?
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Mission
Leadership and communication
Vendor involvement
Schedule
Recruiting other participants
Resources: $$, Facility
• Agenda for next meeting
– Survey items from RSVP
Slide 14
Thank you!
Corey Zeigler
FDHRPO
[email protected]
(315) 755-2020 x11
Alan Mitchell
PCDC
[email protected]
(212) 437-3952
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