{"id":617538,"date":"2009-12-31T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T18:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-1928798959729743037"},"modified":"2009-12-31T14:02:13","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T19:02:13","slug":"healthcare-standards-how-you-know-they-blew-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/617538","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare standards: how you know they blew it"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>You only need to know one thing to know that the frenetic healthcare standards efforts failed &#8230;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geekdoctor.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/interim-final-rule-on-standards.html\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/geekdoctor.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/interim-final-rule-on-standards.html\">Life as a Healthcare CIO: The Interim Final Rule on Standards<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/geekdoctor.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/interim-final-rule-on-standards.html\"><\/a>&#8230; The adopted vocabulary standards for procedures are the applicable HIPAA code set required by law (i.e.,ICD-9-CM) or CPT-4. The candidate standards are the applicable HIPAA code set required by law (e.g.,ICD-10-CM) or CPT-4&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>CPT. Fully owned by the AMA, CPT is a rough collection of work descriptions sometimes loosely related to procedures. It&#8217;s not a vocabulary, it&#8217;s not a classification, and it has no stable semantics.  <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The adoption of CPT as a healthcare &#8220;standard&#8221; is not the only sign of failure, but it is the most telling sign.<\/div>\n<div>&#8212;<br \/><small><a href=\"feed:\/\/www.google.com\/reader\/public\/atom\/user\/06457543619879090746\/state\/com.google\/broadcast\">My Google Reader Shared items (feed)<\/a><\/small><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/5587346-1928798959729743037?l=notes.kateva.org' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You only need to know one thing to know that the frenetic healthcare standards efforts failed &#8230; Life as a Healthcare CIO: The Interim Final Rule on Standards &#8230; The adopted vocabulary standards for procedures are the applicable HIPAA code set required by law (i.e.,ICD-9-CM) or CPT-4. The candidate standards are the applicable HIPAA code [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-617538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2AEi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}