ASHO promotes practical clinical coding training with a new ICD-10-ES monographic course

June 2026.- Accurate clinical coding continues to gain importance in the healthcare sector as a key tool for ensuring the quality of healthcare information, improving hospital management, and enabling the effective use of clinical data.

In this context, ASHO has launched a new ICD-10-ES monographic course on specialty-based coding, which will take place from June 25 to 27 and is designed to strengthen professionals’ skills in the classification of diagnoses and procedures across environments of varying complexity.

“Clinical coding is a strategic element within the healthcare system that directly impacts information quality, care planning, and efficiency in resource management. Ongoing professional training is essential to ensure rigorous and up-to-date practice,” explains Ruth Cuscó, Managing Director of ASHO.

The program aims to consolidate participants’ knowledge of clinical coding through the practical application of the ICD-10-ES classification system, with special emphasis on hospital discharge reports from different medical specialties.

The training seeks to equip participants with the skills required to identify, interpret, and accurately code relevant clinical information, as well as to use the tools available in their daily professional practice effectively.

“The course methodology is highly practical and based on learning through real-life cases. The program combines the analysis of real clinical cases proposed by the teaching staff with the collaborative resolution of situations contributed by the participants themselves,” explains Cuscó.

The course, which will be taught by Dr. Jesús Trancoso Estrada at the Sallés Hotel Pere IV in Barcelona and is currently undergoing accreditation by the Catalan Council for Continuing Education of Health Professions – Continuing Education Commission of the National Health System, will be divided into several modules.

In the Traumatology section, participants will address traumatic fractures and their different encounter types. In General Surgery, they will work on cases such as anastomotic dehiscence, postoperative fistulas, acute cholecystitis with septic shock, perianal fistulas and abscesses, and dermatochalasis. The Internal Medicine module will focus on conditions such as COPD and aspiration pneumonia. The program will also include topics such as cranioplasty and cerebrospinal fluid fistula, chemotherapy and chemoembolization, as well as complicated diabetic cataracts.

“Adopting a methodology based on real cases allows knowledge to be transferred immediately into daily practice, increasing both the value of the training and its impact on the work of healthcare professionals,” concludes Cuscó.

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