The World Health Organization (WHO) established the Commission on Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) in 2005.

If you are new to the world of healthcare terminologies, you will learn quickly that there are many of them, each with its individual terminology model (content structure and organization), area(s) of focus, release schedule and format, language, and other characteristics.

Wuhan, the capital of Central China’s Hubei province, is under siege.

The FY2020 ICD-10-CM (version 37) will come into effect October 1, 2019. Most of the changes involve adding specificity to existing FY2019 codes

ICD-10-CM replaced ICD-9-CM in the U.S. on October 1st, 2015 (fiscal year 2016). Due to the three-year freeze on routine updates and the one-year delay in switching over, the upcoming fiscal year 2017 edition (effective October 1st, 2016) added 1,973 new codes. Here are some highlights: