International Classification of Health-Interventions & Educational Therapy

The World Health Organization introduced the International Classification of Health Interventions (ICHI) (Beta-3, 2020) as a comprehensive framework for classifying health interventions across clinical, rehabilitative, preventive, and allied-health domains. Unlike older procedure-based systems, ICHI employs a three-axis structure, i.e., Target, Action, and Means, allowing detailed and flexible documentation of interventions addressing body functions, activities and participation, environmental factors, and health-related behaviors. While ICHI does not provide a single explicit code labeled “Educational Therapy,” it can represent such interventions through combinations of codes reflecting training, counseling, support, or assistive-technology provision tailored to specific functional targets. Designed to complement the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) and the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD), ICHI enables integrated documentation of conditions, interventions, and functioning outcomes. Although challenges remain in mapping broad or multidisciplinary programs to discrete codes, the ICHI–ICF–ICD triad provides a more context-sensitive and interoperable framework than earlier single-procedure coding models.