Threat or opportunity?

The coding system upgrade can be an opportunity or disaster, depending on your hospital's preparations.

Data Elements for Emergency Department Systems, Release 1.0 (DEEDS): A Summary Report.

See editorial, p 274. Variations in the way that data are entered in emergency department record systems impede the use of ED records for direct patient care and deter their reuse for many other legitimate purposes. To foster more uniform ED data, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control is coordinating a public-private partnership that has developed recommended specifications for many observations, actions, instructions, conclusions, and identifiers that are entered in ED records.