Stay informed about the progress toward a decision about adopting ICD-11 and key findings. Access quarterly updates and summary reports related to CIHI’s ICD-11 priorities as they become available.
ICD-11 quarterly updates
2023–2024
ICD-11 readiness assessment results: CIHI consulted with stakeholders and vendors across Canada and conducted an ICD-11 readiness assessment using a range of collection instruments such as surveys, focus groups and interviews. See the executive summary in the ICD-11 summary documents section below.
Highlights of ICD-11 webinar: This webinar provides a high-level overview of new features in ICD-11 and highlights key changes between ICD-11 and ICD-10-CA (the Canadian modification of ICD-10). This is the third webinar CIHI has released on this topic. Recordings and transcripts are available on our Codes, classifications and terminologies web page.
2022–2023
Webinar update : With the WHO’s release of ICD-11 for international use in February 2022, the Introduction to ICD-11 webinar series was retired. 2 new webinars on ICD-11 — Introduction to ICD-11 and Using the ICD-11 Coding Tool — have been released in English and French.
Canadian stability analysis activities: Throughout the development of ICD-11, CIHI has been providing recommendations for content enhancement by comparing the content of ICD-10-CA and ICD-11. For more details, refer to Canadian Stability Analysis: Comparing v2018 ICD-10-CA With ICD-11 and Canadian Stability Analysis: Comparison of Selected Set of v2018 ICD-10-CA Codes and ICD-11 in the ICD-11 summary documents section below.
ICD-11 summary documents
The summary documents below were originally published for WHO-FIC. They have been reformatted for download.
CIHI’s ICD-11 priorities
2023–2024
- Executive Summary: ICD-11 Readiness Assessment Results, 2023 (PDF): This executive summary describes key recommendations following consultations with stakeholders and vendors across Canada to understand the landscape of hospital and clinical information system (HIS/CIS) use and the impact that ICD-11 implementation will have on these systems.
- Evaluating the Impact of ICD-11 on Canada’s Health Care Information Systems (PDF): This describes key recommendations following consultations with stakeholders and vendors across Canada to understand the landscape of hospital and clinical information system (HIS/CIS) use and the impact that ICD-11 implementation will have on these systems.
2022–2023
- Canadian Stability Analysis: Comparing v2018 ICD-10-CA With ICD-11 (PDF): This summarizes the findings of CIHI’s assessment of the level of specificity when mapping 1 v2022 ICD-10-CA code to 1 or more ICD-11 codes.
- Coding Exploration Field Trials — Case Scenarios (Main and Other Condition): A Canadian Perspective (coming summer 2024): CIHI conducted ICD-11 coding exploration field trials using a multi-phase approach. Each phase introduced new learnings and increased in complexity, from simple introductory diagnostic terms to the capture of main and other conditions. The first 2 phases were conducted in 2020.
Released prior to 2022–2023
- Assessing ICD-11’s Potential for Improved Mental Health Reporting in Canada (coming summer 2024): This reports the findings of CIHI’s mapping of DSM-5 clinical concepts to ICD-11 and comparison of the level of specificity. With ICD-11’s new structure and updated clinical content, the data derived from DSM-5 and ICD-11 will be much more comparable.
- Coding Exploration Field Trials — Simple Diagnostic Terms: A Canadian Perspective (coming summer 2024): CIHI conducted ICD-11 coding exploration field trials using a multi-phase approach. Each phase introduced new learnings and increased in complexity, from simple introductory diagnostic terms to the capture of main and other conditions.
- Canadian Stability Analysis: Comparison of Selected Set of v2018 ICD-10-CA Codes and ICD-11 (coming summer 2024): This summarizes the findings of CIHI’s assessment of the level of specificity when mapping 1 v2018 ICD-10-CA code to 1 or more ICD-11 codes.
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