ATLANTA, July 7, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --  ICD-10 Charts (www.icd10charts.com) announced today that after 6 months of development, it has officially launched its newest line of ICD-10 preparation resources, the ICD-10 Charts Training Academy and the new 4 Step ICD-10 Implementation Plan.  Both of these resources, as well as all other ICD-10 Charts resources and mobile apps, are available to any medical practice in America, completely free-of-charge.  With the release of these resources, the company has created a revolutionary new solution to the mounting concerns surrounding the transition from the ICD-9 to ICD-10 coding system, which is set to take place on October 1, 2015.

The state-of-the-art ICD-10 Charts implementation resources and training modules are the very first of their kind to ever be released in the ICD-10 industry, and are unparalleled in usefulness and innovation.  The 4 Step Program, delineated below, provides a unique platform for physicians and coders to learn their relevant ICD-10 codes, a means to integrate these codes into their practice, and over 15 hours of comprehensive ICD-10 training modules which are custom-tailored based on the specialty of the medical practice in question.  Any practice can go through these 4 Steps at any time by clicking "Begin" on the ICD-10 Charts homepage.  To watch a brief informational video about the new 4 Step Program and the ICD-10 Charts Training Academy, go to www.icd10charts.com/4steps or click below.  

Step 1: Convert
The first step in any practice's personalized implementation plan is to convert all of their ICD-9 codes to ICD-10.  While the traditional method for doing this requires weeks of manually searching and converting ICD-9 codes, with help of the ICD-10 Charts Bulk Converter, up to 10,000 ICD-9 codes can be converted instantly, at the touch of a button.  These codes are then automatically arranged by body-system, and organized as either "1:1 conversions" (red) which require no additional specificity, and "increased specificity" conversions (blue) which do require increased specificity in ICD-10.  This allows physicians and coders to rapidly identify which of their practices relevant ICD-9 codes will require additional detail in ICD-10.

Step 2: Organize
All of the ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes from Step 1 are automatically populated into the ICD-10 Charts, ChartBuilder, which is widely considered to be the most user-friendly and technologically advanced conversion platform to ever exist for ICD-10.  ChartBuilder can be used to organize and customize your chart in numerous different ways including:

• Searching/Converting for additional codes by ICD-9, ICD-10-CM, the diagnosis description or ICD-10 PCS
• Adding, removing, and rearranging codes from your chart
• Editing diagnosis descriptions to use the same medical terminology used in your practice
• Sorting diagnosis codes by ICD-9, ICD-10, or alphabetically
• "Combination Coder" tool consolidates all the ICD-9 codes that combine together to a single ICD-10 code, thus allowing for quick identification of the various combination codes in ICD-10

Step 3: Integrate
ICD-10 Charts offers a wide range of options for integrating your personalized ICD-10 Chart into your practice. 

• Print your chart immediately for distribution around your practice
• Save an unlimited number of charts, and access all your saved charts at anytime through My Charts
• Export your chart to excel format, for integration into various EMR systems.
• Practices will soon also be able to export their charts to .pdf format, and share their charts via email or on Facebook to help other colleagues with their ICD-10 implementation

Step 4: Training
The final step for any practice's ICD-10 preparation is the ICD-10 Charts Training Academy.  The Training Academy is a free ICD-10 training portal which creates custom-tailored ICD-10 courses for every different medical specialty.  The program is made up of 6 professionally-narrated "Stages," filled with general ICD-10 information, followed by 20 unique "Chapters" of specific ICD-10 coding information which are separated by body system.  The training modules were developed by a team of ICD-10 experts and software engineers, and were built using the best eLearning software in the industry.  The modules themselves are fully-interactive and filled with numerous coding practice problems, to maximize content retention.  ICD-10 Charts also offers the only training program on the market that has integrated Search/Convert functionality built-in to each coding practice problem, which simulate real-life ICD-10 coding scenarios in the field.  To learn more about the ICD-10 Charts Training Academy, go to training.icd10charts.com.