While vendors of medical billing software might be well on their way to being ready for the October 2014 ICD-10 deadline, the same can’t exactly be said for physician practices.
A February survey of 260 healthcare organizations found that three-fourths of them were 25 percent or less along in the implementation process.
That’s one thing that worried the team at ADP AdvancedMD, a Salt Lake City-based software company that provides cloud-based EHRs, practice management tools and medical billing software and services to medical practices. While the company has made its own software ICD-10-ready, leaders in the company also realized that there were many parts of the transition process it just couldn’t do for its customers, like adjusting office workflows and training employees.
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Meanwhile, customers were dealing with the transition to 5010 and upcoming Meaningful Use deadlines. They were hearing a lot of noise about ICD-10 but didn’t have a lot of clarity about where to start executing.
So product analyst Michael Bearnson and a handful of other associates from across the company’s departments formed a “posse” that would develop and share resources to help clients and prospective clients prepare for the transition.
“We tried to take all of implementation playbooks and guides and boil it down into a step-by-step process for smaller, private practices, and put together a trail map of tasks,” he said.
One of the fruits of that effort is the My ICD-10 Timeline, which maps out five distinct phases from assessment to implementation, and links to resources that can help with each step. The resources range from the company’s own webinars to news articles to tools from the American Academy of Professional Coders.
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Steve Zobell, VP of product development, emphasized that while the transition is a process that will require time and resources, it’s not too late to start.
See the full timeline here.
[Screen cap from ADP AdvancedMD’s ICD-10 Timeline]
