Layout 1 ISDS Annual Conference Proceedings 2012. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution- Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ISDS 2012 Conference Abstracts Implications of ICD-9/10 CM Transition for Public Health Surveillance: Challenges, Opportunities, and Lessons Learned from Multiple Sectors of Public Health Peter Hicks*1 and Atar Baer2 1CDC, Atlanta, GA, USA; 2Public Health Seattle And King County, Seattle, WA, USA Objective To provide a forum for local, state, federal, and international pub- lic health/ health care sectors to share promising practices and les- sons learned in transitioning their organizations in the use of ICD-9 to ICD-10 codes for their respective surveillance activities. Introduction This roundtable will provide forum for a diverse set of represen- tatives from the local, state, federal and international public health care sectors to share tools, resources, experiences, and promising practices regarding the potential impact of the transition on their sur- veillance activities. This forum will promote the sharing of lessons learned, foster collaborations, and facilitate the reuse of existing re- sources without having to “reinvent the wheel”. It is hope that this roundtable will lay the ground-work for a more formal, collabora- tive, and sustainable venue within ISDS to aid in preparing the pub- lic health surveillance community for the coming ICD-9/10 CM transition. Methods The moderators will engage the participants in the discussion through dialogue in how their programs are currently using ICD-9 CM codes for surveillance and how the transition will impact their re- spective programs. Keywords ICD-9; ICD-10; Transition *Peter Hicks E-mail: phicks@cdc.gov Online Journal of Public Health Informatics * ISSN 1947-2579 * http://ojphi.org * 5(1):e194, 2013