Precyse, HealthStream offer ICD-10 education

Health information management services provider Precyse and HealthStream, a provider of healthcare learning and research tools, have partnered to deliver ICD-10 education program for providers in healthcare.

The program offered through Precyse University and delivered through HealthStream's learning platform, the HealthStream Learning Center, is designed to prepare coders, physicians, nurses, case managers and administrative staff for the transition to ICD-10, the Nashville, Tenn.-based HealthStream stated.

Students will be educated on the foundation and guidelines in ICD-10, as well as the necessary medical terminology and anatomy and physiology that ICD-10 requires to assign very specific diagnosis and procedure codes for medical services that are rendered to patients, Precyse, of Wayne, Pa., added.

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