The influence of a specific ophthalmological electronic health record on ICD-10 coding.
Karsten Ulrich KortuemChristoph HirneißMichael MüllerAlexander BabenkoAnselm KampikThomas C KreutzerPublished in: BMC medical informatics and decision making (2016)
An optimized EHR was created for ophthalmological needs and for simplified ICD-10 coding. The implementation of digital patient recording increased the diversity of the diagnoses used per case as well as the number of diagnoses coded per case. A general limitation to date is the suboptimal precision of ICD-10 coding in ophthalmology. Correct coding is of utmost importance for future data analysis.