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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
