The Impact of Covid-19 on the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)

Gokul Ramadoss

doi:10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i04.5939

The Impact of Covid-19 on the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)

Author(s)	Gokul Ramadoss
Country	USA
Abstract	The covid 19 pandemic has significantly affected the international classification of disease causing a rapid adaptation to conquer the upcoming health challenges. It is a global standard for reporting diseases and health conditions, that is maintained by the World Health Organization, the ICD. An urgent announcement of specified ICD codes like U07.1 for the exact number of cases and U07.2 for the clinical data were made during the COVID-19 in order to track the accurate number of viruses throughout the world. For effective health interventions and international comparison this standardization was very important. Inorder to track the numbers and effects of the disease a new code was introduced post-COVID-19 syndrome (U09.9), that played a very important role. These changes improved the management of patients and also helped in research. But the lack of health data reporting and the number of health systems that support the ICD updates were also noticed in the pandemic. This is the only reason to have a perfect and efficient infrastructure for the health information and the changes that were made in the ICD was done globally. The improving of the infrastructure is the one of the most important part in the innovation of ICD and other systems that are related to global health sector. One thing that should be kept in mind is to keep the system updated. This shows the reason why to invest in the health information infrastructure, it is to achieve efficiency and accuracy in all data reporting.
Keywords	Covid 19, ICD, Codes, ICD-11
Published In	Volume 5, Issue 4, July-August 2023
Published On	2023-07-26
Cite This	The Impact of Covid-19 on the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) - Gokul Ramadoss - IJFMR Volume 5, Issue 4, July-August 2023. DOI 10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i04.5939
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i04.5939
Short DOI	https://doi.org/g8d3rc

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