Healthcare Code Sets, Clinical Terminologies, and Classification Systems

By Kathy Giannangelo

Book Overview

Move confidently into the future of healthcare with a clear understanding of the latest developments in the growing field of health informatics. HIM students and professionals need to understand multiple terminologies, vocabularies, code sets, and classification systems, and this book describes them all in detail. It also clearly explains key systems to prepare you for the adoption of the electronic health record (HER). Discover how the various data sets can be created, accessed, combined, manipulated, and shared. This text will help you develop an understanding of: * The components making up the infrastructure of electronic health records * How standard diagnosis and procedure code sets interact with emerging code sets and data standards * How new, terminologies, vocabularies, and classification systems work together with HIPAA standard code sets in the identification and organization of clinical data Key Features o Includes in-depth, thoroughly updated descriptions and discussions of the following code sets: + D-9 and ICD-9-CM + ICD-10, ICD-10-CM, and ICD-10-PCS + CPTr + HCPSC + NDC + CDT + SNOMED CTr + MEDCIN CTr + DSM + LOINCr o Offers complete coverage of drug terminology systems, terminologies used in nursing practice, specialty international classifications, and other emerging vocabulary, terminology, and classification systems. o Provides full discussion of data set and data interchange standards for healthcare.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584262257
• ISBN13: 9781584262251
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Amer Health Information Management
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.3" x 1.2" x 8.3"