Precyse University, an innovative online learning portal helping health care professionals update their medical coding, has partnered with Athenahealth, Inc. to link its network of more than 50,000 health care providers in preparing for the October transition to ICD-10.

This October the health care industry must shift International Classification of Diseases (ICD) coding from ICD-9 to ICD-10. Precyse University’s online educational platform is now used by approximately 1.2 million learners in health care organizations, now including Athenahealth, Inc.

Athenahealth, Inc. is a cloud-based services company on a mission to build an information backbone to help make health care work as it should with a program called More Disruption Please. Through the MDP program, Athenahealth is accelerating the introduction of high-value innovation via the cloud, providing new services to help providers thrive in the face of industry change and pressure.

MDP partners with innovators, entrepreneurs, companies, investors, and individuals—those who are passionate about overthrowing established approaches in health care that simply aren’t working, aren’t good enough, or aren’t advancing the industry. Unlike other health care startup incubators, MDP invites qualified companies like Precyse to gain access to the more than 50,000 providers that are already plugged into Athenahealth’s cloud-based network.

“Precyse University delivers a powerful tool for physician practices,” Thomas Ormondroyd, vice president and general manager of Precyse Learning Solutions said. “Although ICD-10 seems daunting and burdensome, it actually offers tremendous opportunity to optimize reimbursement, minimize denials and appeals and improve clinical care through more valuable and detailed data. Our solutions are designed to ease the change to ICD-10 and have physicians and their staffs ready for its arrival.”

Information about MDP and partnership opportunities is at www.athenahealth.com/disruption. Precyse, www.precyse.com, has enabled nearly 4,000 healthcare facilities and health systems nationwide to improve efficiency and deliver tangible outcomes for more than a decade.