A translation of this post is available in Chinese thanks to Lin Zhang, a LOINC volunteer from China. At the December 2015 Laboratory LOINC Committee meeting, we took up the important topic of best practices for staying up to date with new LOINC release versions. We...
LOINC is widely used as a vocabulary standard for laboratory observations. It’s less well known that LOINC has large body of content covering standardized patient assessments, like patient reported outcomes measures, survey instruments, and other kinds of...
In a November 6th letter to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), Regenstrief provided comments on the Draft 2016 Interoperability Standards Advisory (2016 Advisory). I believe that the goals of the Advisory are laudable:...
In July 2013, the Regenstrief Institute and IHTSDO signed a landmark long-term collaboration agreement to align how LOINC and SNOMED CT represent laboratory tests and some types of clinical measurements. The goals of the agreement are to build closer links between...
As an academic, I spend a lot of time writing. Switching to a Mac was one of the best productivity hacks of my life. But there has always been this one nagging problem: Microsoft Word. I loathe Microsoft Word. Especially the Mac version. Word has many flaws, but the...
Updated Article AvailableI’ve written a new, complete guide for creating a high tech, low clutter home office setup. Check it out here. Read the newer version I’ve loved my Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 computer speakers ever since I bought them 12 years ago. So when the...
