I recently listened to a laboratory medicine podcast on the need for clinician friendly terms in laboratory testing.

The Regenstrief Institute released version 2.66 of the Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC) on June 21st this year.

Staying ahead of the curve: latest LOINC release changes

When a new LOINC version is released, The Eagles song ‘Life in the Fast Lane’ always comes to mind.

LOINC’s 25th Anniversary was celebrated on February 16, 2019 with a social media blitz of timeline, photo archive and many well wishes from around the world on Twitter and the LOINC Forum.

The latest release of LOINC (v2.65 Dec 2018) has a few laboratory updates for which you’ll want to check your existing mapping, and it’ll be great to get them done before the next release, anticipated for June 2019.