by Daniel Vreeman | Dec 22, 2016 | musing, project secret weapon
61 million children worldwide don’t have a primary school to go to. It’s amazing to think that if all students in low-income countries could acquire basic reading skills, world poverty would be cut by 12%. Education is such a powerful force for all kinds...
by Daniel Vreeman | Nov 24, 2016 | LOINC, musing
A translation of this post is available in Chinese thanks to Lin Zhang, a LOINC volunteer from China. Without a doubt, making LOINC freely available under an open license is a key factor in its adoption around the world. Although we often explain the basics of...
by Daniel Vreeman | Nov 11, 2016 | LOINC, musing
In my role on the 2017 Interoperability Standards Advisory Task Force of the U.S. Health IT Standards Committee (HITSC), we are making recommendations about revisions and enhancements that the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) could make for the...
by Daniel Vreeman | Sep 25, 2016 | digital life, musing
After my beloved Lexus LS met an untimely death this summer, I got a new ride. Meet the gorgeous Audi A7 (Prestige Trim). Hello black beauty. The Audi is sweet, but there was one big problem. The bass from the 14-speaker Bose surround sound system is...
by Daniel Vreeman | Sep 24, 2016 | musing
Over the last couple of years, the Regenstrief Institute and the Radiological Society of North America have been working together in an amazingly productive collaboration to unify the LOINC radiology content with the RSNA’s RadLex Playbook. The goal is...
by Daniel Vreeman | Aug 15, 2016 | musing
Over time, several research scientists have asked me whether there are any open access databases of de-identified laboratory data coded with LOINC. Clinical laboratory data are used in a majority of medical decisions. They are also valuable in measuring the quality of...
