In April, Congress and President Obama agreed to delay implementation of the ICD-10 standard for medical diagnosis and billing codes to Oct. 1, 2015. A study conducted in May and June found that most healthcare providers are using the 12-month ICD-10 reprieve to prepare for the new coding standard.

The survey of 349 healthcare organizations, vendors, and consultants conducted by eHealth Initiative and the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), and sponsored by the health IT vendor Edifecs, found that organizations are taking advantage of the delay in a variety of ways. For example...

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