GOVPH

by: Romeo C. Tuazon Jr., DrPH, RN, RM
     Nurse VI

The Bataan General Hospital through the Professional Education, Training and Research Unit (PETRU) has successfully conducted the Training Course on the International Classification of Disease version 10 (ICD-10) for coders on April 9-13, 2018 which was attended by selected hospital staff from different sections namely Medical Records, Philhealth, Billing, Nursing Service and heads of various clinical departments together with their secretaries. ICD-10 is a system of categorizing or grouping diseases, injuries, conditions and procedures wherein specific codes are assigned according to set criteria. Likewise, it translates diagnoses and other health related problems from text into an alphanumeric code that permits easy storage, retrieval and analysis of data.

Dr. Glory V. Baltazar, Medical Center Chief II, gave her welcome remarks wherein she emphasized the significant role of the hospital staff in providing factual, accurate and reliable health data which is deemed necessary in the continual improvement of the hospital. Dr. Baltazar added that ICD-10 must be implemented in all primary, secondary and tertiary hospitals both government and private and it shall be an additional vital requirement for initial processing and renewal of licenses based on the DOH Administrative Order no. 47 series of 2000 which is also supported by the Philhealth Circular no. 04 series of 2001 that requires ICD-10 in all hospital claims applications.

The said short course became possible through the help of the training team from the Philippine Medical Records Association (PMRA) which is headed by its National President, Ms. Lilian S. Garcia, together with Mr. Emmanuel M. Lagustan and Florinda G. Tuvillo who are both ICD-10 National Trainers in partnership with the Department of Health (DOH). Mr. Lagustan said that DOH adopted the ICD-10 to improve the quality of morbidity and mortality statistics in all health facilities.

During the five days training, the participants were able to participate actively especially during the workshop sessions wherein they were able to practice the proper coding of several conditions based on the standards of ICD-10 aside from the usual lecture and discussion. On the last day of the training, the participants were given a Post-test which aims to evaluate what they have learned from the said course wherein majority of them got the passing score that enables them to acquire the Certificate of Completion.

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