by Daniel Vreeman | Oct 28, 2017 | project secret weapon
A huge thank you to everyone who contributed to celebrating Lorrie’s 40th birthday with our big event! Lorrie was truly stunned by our surprise event: Celebrate Today. Build Tomorrow. And we were truly stunned by your generous contributions that raised over...
by Daniel Vreeman | Sep 8, 2017 | LOINC, musing
Making health data interoperable across different IT systems requires a few kinds of standards. Exchange standards like HL7’s Version 2, CDA, and FHIR are key to organizing information into a commonly understood structure as it moves between systems. Vocabulary...
by Daniel Vreeman | Aug 13, 2017 | LOINC, musing
Grouping data coded with similar LOINC codes isn’t as easy as it first seems. Perhaps you are processing data from many sources for a research project in a network like PCORnet or ODHSI. Or, maybe you’re retrieving data to fulfill a quality measure report....
by Daniel Vreeman | Jun 30, 2017 | LOINC, musing
Each new LOINC® release that Regenstrief publishes contains many edits to LOINC terms. About 7,000 terms were edited in version 2.61 and about 11,000 in version 2.58. That’s a lot of change every six months! How is it that all those edits don’t cause havoc...
by Daniel Vreeman | Jun 23, 2017 | LOINC, musing
On June 21, 2017 I had the privilege of testifying to the U.S. National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics about the role of vocabulary standards like LOINC in accelerating innovation, efficiency, and quality in healthcare. Together with colleagues from the...
