AS THE HEALTHCARE industry begins to move toward new care delivery and payment models, the importance of high quality data to support decision-making, modeling, and quality reporting has become integral to emerging systems. Diagnostic data has always been key for clinical, billing, and reporting purposes and will become even more important in supporting healthcare reform as improvements in the ICD-10-CM/PCS (ICD-10) code set are implemented on October 1, 2014. Dr. Sam Ho, chief clinical officer at United Healthcare, noted during his keynote address at AHIMA's 2013 ICD-10-CM/PCS and Computer-Assisted Coding Summit that the "Triple Aim" can be achieved by leveraging data-data that is improved by the ICD-10 code set. (For more on the Triple Aim, see sidebar on page 56.) Better data allows providers to adhere to evidence-based medicine, analyze gaps in care, and discover disparities in appropriate use and cost, Ho said during his presentation. Meeting quality measures leads to achieving part of the Triple Aim, and ICD-10 helps providers and healthcare stakeholders better measure the feasibility and accuracy of quality metrics, he said.
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