The 6th Edition of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification (ICD-10-AM) and the Australian Classification of Health Interventions (ARCHI) were implement in July 2008.

Click here to see a few simple patient scenarios and the corresponding codes.

Health Information Management and Clinical Coding

Automated Cause Of Death Coding using Mortality Medical Data System (MMDS) - Australian Bureau of Statistics
Allied Health Casemix form - may be useful for those organisations seeking further code specification of Allied Health treatments.
Casemix Glossary
Dental coding cheat sheet - ICD-10-10 v2
Documentation & DRGs: A Physician’s Guide - quite a good reference document.
Documentation Audit template -
Documentation impact on the DRG - PowerPoint presentation.
DRG Error Audit Template
DRG list version 4.1 - a little old but still handy.
Hospital list - List of all Queensland Public and Private Hospitals with contacts
ICD-10-AM cheat sheets - 2nd Edition
Malpresentation - excellent PowerPoint presentation
Medication Guidelines - from the QCC
Outstanding Discharge Summary Collection Spreadsheet
Orientation pamphlet for Clinicians - a small pamphlet I have designed with a brief description of coding and documentation need. Also contains some Common co-morbidities and complications which may impact on the DRG.
PCCL Calculator
Poster Template - great template from the University of Sydney
What Fracture is That? - Describes the various fractures types, anatomical location as well as common fracture names.

Health Informatics

ERDIP EHR Issues and Lessons Learned Report
Health Connect Program Office, Consent and Electronic Health Records: A discussion paper, July 2002
ISO/TC 215 Ad Hoc Group Report Standards Requirements for the Electronic Health Record and Discharge/Referral Plans
Report on The 2nd National Health Online Summit, Brisbane 3-4 March 2003
Applying ICD-10-AM Codes to Therapeutic Guidelines

Journals and Web Articles

A comparison of competing methods for the detection of surgical-site infections in patients undergoing total arthroplasty of the knee, partial and total arthroplasty of hip and femoral or similar vascular bypass. J Hosp Infect. 2004 Jul;57(3):189-93.
Casemix: moving forward. Introducing ICD-10-AM in Australian hospitals. MJA 1998.
Diagnosis-based Injury Severity Scaling. A method using Australian and New Zealand hospital data coded to ICD-10-AM. AIHW, 2003
Introducing ICD-10-AM in Australian hospitals. NCCH, Med J Aust, 1998
Medical records and population health. Rosemary F Roberts and Ralph M Hanson, MJA 2003; 179 (6): 277-278.
Bulletin Board: Patient Access to EHRs a Must; Physicians Using E-mail
(But Not with Patients) - Journal of AHIMA/October 2004 -75/9, page 14.
Specificity in ICD-10-AM. Meeting of the Heads of WHO Collaborating Centres for the Classification of Diseases.