Department of Biomedical Informatics

Genomic Medicine Adoption May be Hindered by Shortcomings in ICD-10 Coding

Written by GenomeWeb | December 22, 2022

The International Classification of Diseases 10th Revision (ICD-10) and its predecessors have been essential code sets in medical records for decades, but geneticists, medical informaticians, and coders alike are finding the current system to be wholly inadequate for the age of precision medicine.