"Illness Unspecified"
Welcome to Our Cause
Our Mission
To positively transform the Rare Disease diagnostic journey and reduce health inequity by strategically promoting the ICD-10 code R69 be used to denote when someone is not yet diagnosed, at the beginning of their "diagnostic odyssey."
Benefits
Of utilizing the ICD-10 code R-69
Policy Adoption
Flagging a person as "not yet diagnosed" or some variation thereof, can impact what resources they receive to move further toward diagnosis. For example, in Serbia, Zoja's law requires doctors to send samples out of the country when someone is undiagnosed more than 6 months.
Tool Development
As tools are developed and improved to proactively analyze (EHR's) to find rare disease cases, intentionally flagging cases where patients are still seeking meaningful diagnoses, should help connect persons on their early stages of their diagnostic odyssey connect with and/or gain access to additional resources.
Imagine This
R69 Initiative
Action Plan
Below are key areas within our mission and to the right is a plan that is updated live so you can follow our activities. The four quadrants help us visualize which action items are urgent, important, and sometimes both. You can also toggle at the upper right to see different visualization items.
THANK YOU TO OUR INERTIAL PARTNERS
