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ICD-10 Would Help US Better Track Ebola
If Congress had not pushed back the deadline for implementing ICD-10 last spring, the United States now would have a specific code for tracking Ebola, according to an infographic from the Coalition for ICD-10.
If Congress had not pushed back the deadline for implementing ICD-10 last spring, the United States now would have a specific code for tracking Ebola, according to an infographic from the Coalition for ICD-10 published at HIT Consultant.
As the only industrialized nation still using ICD-9, the disease is classified as 078.89, Other specified diseases due to viruses, a designation used for multiple viral diseases that have not been assigned a specific code. In ICD-10, it would have its own code A98.4, Ebola.
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Oncology Onward: A Conversation With Dr Shereef Elnahal, Under Secretary for Health
April 20th 2023Shereef Elnahal, MD, MBA, under secretary for health at the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), sat for a conversation with our hosts Emeline Aviki, MD, MBA, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Stephen Schleicher, MD, MBA, Tennessee Oncology, that covered the cancer footprint of the VHA.
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How Health Systems, Pharmacy Teams Tackle Rare Disease Therapy Barriers: David Mitchell, PharmD, MBA
September 24th 2025David Mitchell, PharmD, MBA, senior pharmacist manager and assistant clinical professor at UC Davis, addresses how health systems are overcoming financial, operational, and access challenges for patients with rare diseases.
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