HIT 205 Discussion: Codes and Search for Diseases

ICD-11The global standard for health data, clinical documentation, and statistical aggregation
Multiple uses, including primary care
Scientifically up-to-date
Designed for use in a digital world
State-of-the-art technology reduces the costs of training and implementation
Multilingual design facilitates global use
Proposal platform allows stakeholder participation in keeping ICD–11 up-to-date.
17.000 categories, 80.000 concepts, 120.000 terms, >1.6 million clinical terms interpretedICD purpose and uses

ICD is the foundation for the identification of health trends and statistics globally, and the international standard for reporting diseases and health conditions. It is the diagnostic classification standard for all clinical and research purposes. ICD defines the universe of diseases, disorders, injuries and other related health conditions, listed in a comprehensive, hierarchical fashion that allows for:

Discussion: Codes and Search for Diseases

Easy storage, retrieval and analysis of health information for evidenced-based decision-making
Sharing and comparing health information between hospitals, regions, settings and countries
Data comparisons in the same location across different time periods
Based on clinical input, research and epidemiology, ICD has become a tool that is suiable for many uses in health, as:

Monitoring of the incidence and prevalence of diseases,
Causes of death
External causes of illess
Codes for antimicrobial resistance, in line with GLASS
Primary care and family medicine concepts have been incorporated into ICD-11
Medicaments (INN – ATC), allergens and chemicals, histopathology (ICD-O 3.2), are embedded in ICD-11
Codes for full documentation of patient safety, in line with the WHO patient safety framework
Dual coding for traditional medicine diagnoses
Primary care settings
Recording of rare diseases
Casemix or Diagnosis Related Groupings (DRG), resource allocation
Embedding of guidelines