The International Classification of Disease, Eleventh Revision (ICD-11) is a system of medical
coding created by the World Health Organization (WHO) for documenting diagnoses, diseases, signs
and symptoms and social circumstances.
Building upon its predecessor, ICD-10, it incorporates medical
findings and data that have been discovered since the release of ICD-10 in 1992. The revision is
currently available in alpha and is due to be released to the public in 2015.
ICD-11 will incorporate a more interactive Web platform, with daily updates and a search site,
to help physicians call upon codes more easily. In addition, ICD-11 will be released in multiple
languages, unlike the purely English release of ICD-10. The WHO has stated that ICD-11 will
be electronic
health record (EHR) ready.
This was last updated in February 2012
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