At the ACUG meeting in Chicago, they stated they had to include SNOMED to meet certification (MU2?). One thing they pointed out was that they would crosswalk SNOMED to ICD 10 and it (SNOWMED) would make coding easier than ICD10. You could still do it in ICD10 if you wished. The time frame for this was by early summer so as to give time for implementation and traing before the Oct 2014 deadline.


Wendell
Pediatrician in Chicago

The patient's expectation is that you have all the answers, sometimes they just don't like the answer you have for them