NEWS STORY: Dentists Chew Over Competing Diagnostic Code Sets for EHR Use

Posted: December 10, 2012
While the medical field wrestles with the ICD-10 transition, slated for October 1, 2014, dentists are struggling with their own diagnostic code conundrum: the lack of an acceptable standard to track patient issues and report clinical outcomes.  As dentists implement EHR systems and hope to qualify for government meaningful use incentives, the availability of a standardized code set will become increasingly important as clinical quality measures take on a larger role in attestation requirements.  Currently there is no standard, but two competing systems are attempting to change that.

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