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Wiki ICD-11 Implementation Date for USA?

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Does anyone know the implementation date for ICD-11 for America? Or if it is even going to happen?
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Cynthia
 
It is nothing to get worried about yet... ICD-11 CM has a projected date of Oct 1 2025. ICD-11 for all other counties looks like OCt 1 2018 It is an interesting code set to be sure. All codes start with a number or letter that corresponds to the chapter followed by a letter and then 2 digits then the decimal. It will be fun! They are also looking to eliminate the I and the O as it is confusing.
 
2022 date is not a date for the USA. its for the international version. Using ICD-10 as an example if it was same first country adopts 2026 and USA adopts in 2050 or so. I'm almost 40 so ill probably be retired by the time USA implements

http://www.who.int/health-topics/international-classification-of-diseases

The version given to the World Health Assembly in 2019 will go into effect on 1 January 2022. However, given the vast technical and technological adaptation and training required to move to a new system – thousands of coders from small primary health care clinics to large hospitals will need retraining – the switch from using ICD-10 to ICD-11 is unlikely to happen overnight.

While there will be a few early adopters, not many countries are likely to adapt that quickly – some countries are still using ICD-9, and a few are even using ICD-8. ICD-10 which was released in 1990 was first implemented by Thailand in 1994; the USA only switched to it in 2015.
 
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