by Daniel Vreeman | May 31, 2021 | LOINC, musing
The most powerful health data standards are openly developed public goods. In crafting the Manifesto for Open Terminology Development we selected openness and accessibility as guiding principles. Yet in my conversations with standards development organizations who...
by Daniel Vreeman | Mar 11, 2019 | LOINC
Prologue Readers should note that this document is a work in progress. Although it represents the cumulative thoughts of a quarter century of LOINC development, it also is just a beginning. We have started by circulating this to a relatively small group, and are...
by Daniel Vreeman | Jun 5, 2018 | LOINC, musing
Regenstrief Institute now provides web services that make much of LOINC’s terminology content available through the HL7 FHIR API. These services open up a whole new way to interact with LOINC programmatically. This tutorial will help you get started with...
by Daniel Vreeman | Dec 23, 2017 | LOINC, musing
Almost no one needs all 87,000+ LOINC terms. Many countries that have adopted LOINC curate a nationally-approved list of LOINC terms for use in their jurisdiction. For example, LOINC subsets can help filter out all the mass-based LOINC terms that aren’t needed in a...
by Daniel Vreeman | Nov 24, 2017 | LOINC, musing
On November 20, Regenstrief provided its public comments on the current (2017) edition of the Interoperability Standards Advisory (ISA) published by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC). In the last year, the ONC has iteratively edited the ISA...
by Daniel Vreeman | Oct 28, 2017 | LOINC, musing
Health data is best standardized right at its source. When the head waters are pristine, everyone downstream benefits. Think about clinical laboratory results, which contribute to so many health decisions. It’s time consuming, complex, and resource intensive to have...
