IT Vendors: Why You Need to Talk About ICD-10 Compliance Now

It's fairly obvious you need to work with your IT vendors to migrate to ICD-10 coding. But Lindsey Getz makes a great point in her article, ICD-10: Two Questions to Ponder in this issue of For The Record.

"Of course, it would help if healthcare organizations knew their vendors," Getz writes. "It may sound like a simple task, but for large organizations it’s not always cut-and-dried."

In many hospitals, they don't have a strong system for dealing with vendors beyond paying the bills. So this would be a good time to document all your vendors and assign someone to work with them. Then assess their impact on ICD-10 compliance. Toward that end, Getz details some steps.