International Classification of Diseases 11th (ICD-11)
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Overview
- News in Brief
- About International Classification of Diseases
- About ICD 11
Why in the News?
With the launch of ICD 11, Traditional Medicine Module 2 by the World Health Organization preparations have started for its implementation.
News in Brief
- The Ministry of Ayush will prepare a public health strategy in future, based on ICD-11, Module 2 and will implement it nationally and internationally.
- A detailed presentation on the journey of preparation of TM Module 2 through a presentation.
- The inclusion of traditional medical terminologies in ICD-11 forms a link between traditional medicine and global standards.
- The indexing of disease terminology related to traditional medicine in ICD-11 proves to be a milestone in building a unified global tradition.
About International Classification of Diseases
- The ICD-11 is the eleventh revision of the International Classification of Diseases.
- It replaces the ICD-10 as the global standard for recording health information and causes of death.
- The ICD is developed and annually updated by the World Health Organization.
- ICD serves a wide range of purposes internationally and offers vital information on the scope, causes, and effects of human disease and mortality worldwide.
- ICD-coded clinical terminology serves as the basic foundation for health records, disease data, and cause-of-death certificates in primary, secondary, and tertiary care settings.
- Payment systems, service planning, the management of quality and safety, and health services research are all supported by these data and statistics.
- Large-scale research is made possible because data gathering is standardized using diagnostic guidelines connected to ICD categories.
About ICD 11
- ICD-11 was adopted by the World Health Assembly in May 2019.
- The transition to implementation is in progress.
- ICD-11 is accessible to everybody.
- Up-to-date scientific knowledge.
ICD-11 is a different and more powerful health information system, based on formal ontology, designed to be implemented in modern information technology infrastructures, and flexible enough for future modification and use with other classifications and terminologies.
- Information framework
- ICD fit for the digital age has been to base it on a computable knowledge framework.
- This is the most important difference between ICD-11 and earlier revisions.
- Foundation for ICD-11
- 80,000 entries complemented by 40,000 synonyms.
- Each characterizing a disease, syndrome, or health-related phenomenon.
- It is in descriptive and specifies its relationships with other entities.
- Provides a way for digital systems to take account of meaning that may be assigned to an entity.
- Clustering
- Provides a general mechanism to allow codes to be combined to form clusters for use where expressive power is required beyond that provided by any single category.
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