How Will ICD-11 Change the Medical Practices

How Will ICD-11 Change the Medical Practices

With an update to ICD-10, the new coding system, ICD-11, was proposed by the WHO in 2018, and it is expected to come into effect from 1 January 2022. The new coding system will aim to ease the process of transition from ICD-10 and provide enough time for training to the participating nations. However, there are several implications that question whether ICD-11 will be globally accepted or not. It took over four decades for the WHO to implement ICD-10 after ICD-9.

The World Health Organization(WHO) introduces ICD-11 as an updated coding system for the 21st?century. It will incorporate new solutions and innovations in healthcare. It will highlight the advancements the healthcare industry has made in science and medicine. WHO wants to adjust the ICD codes according to the changing scenarios, and looking at the health condition?of countries in 2020, it is safe to believe that new codes can offer better support.

Why Change Something?

The?Scientists are discovering new diseases, the knowledge of old ones is changing, but this is not the only reason. The ICD is an important tool that allows you to understand how common various diseases are, what are the causes of death and how the situation changes.

In ICD, everything is coded in a certain way. Using the code, it is much easier to compare data from different hospitals and countries – you can be sure that all cases are taken into account and nothing important is missed just because the disease is called differently in different countries.

Sometimes, it is also important for insurance companies.

Key features of ICD-11

The World Health Organization plans on introducing ICD-11 with the most advanced technology and practices. Some of the key features of ICD-11 will include:

·????????It will be the first completely electronic version of ICD that will be introduced to the healthcare industry.

·????????Over 30,000 new codes will be added for different disease conditions. It will help the coders to categorize the newly discovered diseases better.

·????????It will update several classifications of symptoms and illnesses that will help in determining the core problems.

·????????Five new chapters will be introduced in ICD-11 training, which will include the study of blood and blood-forming organ-related diseases, immune system disorders, sexual health problems,?sleeping disorders traditional medicine coding, and extension codes.

Contain more diseases

The ICD-10 contained 14400 items. There are 55,000 in the ICD-11, but this does not mean that four times more diseases have appeared: The international classification of diseases also includes circumstances affecting health. For example, dissatisfaction with the situation at school and low levels of personal hygiene.

Changing the number of items in the ICD is considered extremely useful because it allows researchers and health care organizers to have a more complete picture. For example, in ICD-11 all types of diabetes are described in detail (there are more than two of them). Diseases that occur on the background of HIV infection have a special code. Rare genetic diseases are now encoded separately. There is also a section “Objects involved in the injury”, which includes not only weapons or other equally dangerous things, but also marsupials, wrist watches, a comb, and so on. In other words, with the help of ICD-1, doctors can literally encode any event in your life that affected health.

What about other changes?

There are a lot of changes, but the doctors mainly mention the following:

·????????Excessive enthusiasm for video games was recognized as a health disorder;

·????????Transsexualism and other gender identity disorders are no longer related to mental and behavioral disorders. They are mentioned in a new section on sexual health. The new name is “gender mismatch.” This reflects the current understanding of this condition and will help to simultaneously remove stigma and not deny people medical care if they need it.

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Less discussed changes include:

·????????The diagnosis of “hermaphroditism” has disappeared. Now this condition is referred to as a violation of gender formation;

·????????A pedophilic disorder appeared in the ICD instead of pedophilia. It can be diagnosed only if the person is very anxious about his preferences or moves to actions;

·????????there appeared a disorder associated with the violation of the integrity of one’s body perception – when a person wants to lose his/her sight, limbs or become paralyzed;

·????????There appeared a section on traditional medicine. WHO justifies this by saying that it is easier to monitor the effects of such methods on health. At the same time, the organization separately explains that such innovation does not indicate that WHO recognized traditional medicine as effective.

How does all this affect us?

From January 1, 2022, all countries will have to apply ICD-11: doctors will not indicate new codes in medical records, statistics will be based on this.

ICD-11: International Classification of Diseases: 11th revision

01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases

02 Neoplasm

03 Diseases of the blood or blood-forming organs

04 Diseases of the immune system

05 Endocrine, nutritional or metabolic diseases

06 Mental, behavioral, or neurodevelopmental disorders

07 Sleep Disorders

08 Diseases of the nervous system

09 Diseases of the visual system

10 Diseases of the ear or mastoid

11 Diseases of the circulatory system

12 Diseases of the respiratory system

13 Diseases of the digestive system

14 skin diseases

15 Diseases of the musculoskeletal system or connective tissue

16 Diseases of the genitourinary system

17 Conditions related to sexual health.

18 Pregnancy, childbirth or the postpartum period.

19 Some conditions arising in the perinatal period.

20 Developmental anomalies

21 Symptoms, signs or clinical findings not elsewhere classified.

22 Trauma, poisoning or some other consequences of external causes.

23 External causes of morbidity or mortality

24 Factors affecting health or contact with health services.

25 Codes for special purposes

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