With BluefishRx ICD-9, you have all the latest code information at your fingertips with powerful search capabilities, including a multi-keyword search engine. BluefishRx ICD9 is part of a suite of applications that includes a full featured prescription writer, CPT code tool and charge capture application. The various modules of BluefishRx can be licensed as a bundle or purchased separately.

An essential tool for physicians, BluefishRx ICD-9 is the first Palm OS code lookup tool to incorporate the entire ICD-9 code set with the full and short code descriptions. It includes an advanced multi keyword search tool with a dictionary of over 250,000 indexed keywords. Keywords are indexed to appropriate codes even if they are not contained in the actual code description. Keyword searches are lightning fast, even on older Palm handhelds.

Most code tools available today are little more than e-books of long lists, and heavily edited descriptions. Such tools are cumbersome on the handheld and provide little value to the physician. Bluefish has concentrated its efforts on making the desired code quick and easy to find via multiple routes. You can search for codes by:

• Drilling down through a proprietary database of ICD-9 Disease Categories.
• Searching by the code number.
• Searching by one or more keywords.

The keyword search is what makes this tool so unique and powerful and will likely be your primary method for finding a code. You no longer need to search through the various disease categories to find a code that may be in one of many parts of the category tree. Entering a keyword will display all possible codes associated with that keyword. As you enter the letters of a keyword all the possible words are displayed. Enter only as many letters as required to view the desired word. Once this word is displayed, tap on the keyword to view the associated codes. If this doesn't narrow your search sufficiently then just enter a second, third or more keywords until you have narrowed your search to one or a handful of codes to individually view.

Bluefish Rx's ICD-9 keyword search engine enables you to search by common terms that are not necessarily part of the code description. For instance searching 'tinea capitis' in Bluefish ICD-9 yields three possible codes:

• 110.0 Dermatophytosis of scalp and beard
• 110.9 Dermatophytosis of unspecified site
• 704.9 Other alopecia

Most other coding tools would yield no results for a search based on these words, as they are not contained in the code description. In order to search for the appropriate code via the disease categories, you would need to know that the code was found through the following sequence. Infectious and Parasitic Diseases - Mycoses - Dermatophytosis.

BluefishRx ICD-9 includes a robust compression tool that reduces the full ICD-9 code set, complete with both short and long descriptions, to a fraction of the size of the original data.

The indexing architecture on which Bluefish Rx ICD-9 was built makes the keyword searches instantaneous on even the least powerful handheld devices, not just the latest arm based devices.

The BluefishRx ICD-9 code tool comes integrated with the best selling BluefishRx prescription writing software. A free trial of both the prescription writing software and the CPT code set are included with the BluefishRx ICD-9 coding tool.

You can purchase the BluefishRx CPT code tool individually for just $99.95 or bundled with the ICD-9 codes for $149.95. BluefishRx can be purchased separately for $79.00 or bundled with the CPT and ICD-9 codes for $199.00.

Some quick facts:

• The ICD-9 code set includes 12,987 individual codes as well as all the E800-E999 and V01-V83 codes.
• All codes within the ICD-9 set are indexed for searching by 249,863 distinct keywords.
• The ICD-9 codes include both the short and full descriptions of each individual code.

Bluefish ICD-9 2004 and CPT 2003 include the latest code revisions available. BluefishRx requires 1.5 megabytes free space on your handheld. Bluefish ICD-9 and CPT 2003 with keyword searching requires an additional 3.4Mb of space on your handheld. BluefishRx ICD-9 is sold on a 12 month subscription basis. Your subscription entitles you to all data and program updates for 12 months. The renewal fee for BluefishRx ICD-9 is $39.95 per year.