Farwaniya Hospital participates in int’l coding system ICD11

KUWAIT CITY, April 14: The Director of Farwaniya Hospital, Dr. Muhammad Al-Rashidi, announced the hospital’s participation in the first experiment at the level of the Middle Eastern countries in the international coding system “ICD11” in coordination with the National Center for Health Information and the Department of Information Systems at the Ministry of Health, reports Al-Seyassah daily.

He stressed on the importance of the system in writing the pathological diagnosis with more accuracy and flexibility as compared to the previous system.

Al-Rashidi told the daily, the Farwaniya Hospital is one of the largest hospitals in Kuwait, and provides services to 1.2 million people and includes many specialties, and serves the population from birth to the elderly, pointing out that the modern coding experiment “ICD11” is a unique experience and is done for the first time.

He indicated that the “ICD11” for diagnosis is the first experience in the Middle East that speaks in the language of all doctors and allocates a language to each doctor that enables him to communicate information so that it is not limited to him alone, as a language that the doctor understands only, but rather the institution as a whole. For his part, the doctor specializing in modern coding at Farwaniya Hospital, Dr. Abdul Ghafour Al-Awadi said that the ICD11 system is a modern version of the ICD10 system, which is the systems concerned with the final diagnosis of the patient after his discharge from the hospital, but the latter had many observations.

He added, one of the disadvantages of the ICD10 coding system is that the diagnosis is one and the doctor cannot change it, so every doctor has the freedom to write any important details related to the diagnosis and this was negatively reflected in the collection of data and information about the patient if there was a need for study or data collection for any specific purpose.