On February 15, 2016 I’m testifying to the NCVHS Subcommittee on Standards on behalf of LOINC. This hearing is the latest in a long line of discussion about the attachment standards. In fact, LOINC’s role in the claims attachments standards was cooking...
A translation of this post is available in Chinese thanks to Lin Zhang, a LOINC volunteer from China. PCORnet, the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network, invited me to give a webinar on some best practices for using LOINC. In that presentation, I shared...
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:...
