What is ICD?
The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is the global standard for recording, reporting, and categorizing diseases, health conditions, injuries, and causes of death. Maintained by the World Health Organization (WHO), it serves as the foundation for health statistics, billing, and clinical decision-making worldwide.
ICD-10 vs ICD-11
ICD-10 has been the dominant version since the 1990s, with over 68,000 diagnosis codes used across clinical, billing, and epidemiological workflows. ICD-11, released in 2019, represents a significant modernization.
- ICD-11 is fully digital-native, designed for integration with EHR systems and FHIR APIs
- Expanded coding for traditional medicine, mental health, and sexual health conditions
- Support for post-coordination, allowing clinicians to combine codes for greater specificity
- Backward-compatible mapping tables to ICD-10 for smooth transition periods
How Kaldor Uses ICD
Our systems support both ICD-10 and ICD-11 coding natively. Clinical encounters, diagnoses, and mortality data are encoded using ICD standards, enabling accurate health statistics, insurance claims processing, and epidemiological surveillance across all platforms we build.