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We Make Computers Understand Healthcare

3M can help you to:

Integrate medical terminology standards into your applications
Make the data from all your systems semantically interoperable for exchange, analytics, decision support, alerts and reminders
Comply with quality measures and Meaningful Use requirements specified by ONC and CMS
Minimize terminology development and maintenance costs
Be more efficient and effective in every aspect of your operations where actionable data is needed

HDD on FHIR^®

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3M HDD now supports FHIR. Find our more about our FHIR terminology server and explore the sandbox.

HDD Overview

The 3M Healthcare Data Dictionary (HDD) provides a simplified solution for the translation, standardization and usability of healthcare data. More importantly, it provides knowledge management for clinical decision-making, research, public health, meaningful use, and quality reporting.

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HL7® FHIR® DevDays 2018 June 19-June 21, 2018, Boston, MA

2018 3M Client Experience Summit July 17-July 19, 2018 Salt Lake City, UT

Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics (SINI) 2018, July 18-July 20, 2018 Baltimore, MD

American Association of Clinical Chemistry (AACC) Annual Meeting, July 29-August 02, 2018 Chicago, I…

AHiMA Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) Summit, August 06-August 07, 2018, Baltimore, MD

American Society of Clinical Pathology (ASCP) Annual Meeting, October 03-October 05, 2018 Baltimore…

HL7 32nd Annual Plenary & Working Group Meeting September 29-October 5, 2018, Baltimore, MD

SNOMED CT Expo 2018 October 18-October 19, 2018, Vancouver, Canada

American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2018 Annual Symposium, November 03-November 07, 2018…

HL7® FHIR® DevDays 2018, November 14-November 16, 2018, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Turn Data Into Intelligence

Bring Order to Chaos

Drive Value from Data

Teleradiology: More Than a Phone Call

Implementing a FHIR terminology server

Opioid Crisis: Transitioning Care Through a Paradigm Shift

What to expect at the HL7 working group meeting: A first timer’s experience

AMIA 2017 Learning Showcase: Terminology-Enabled Clinical Natural Language Processing for Unstructur…

How I learned HL7 FHIR as a clinician without losing my mind

Advancing informatics: Experiencing AMIA for the first time

Report from the FHIR Connectathon at the HL7: September 2017 Working Group Meeting

Reflections from a laboratory scientist: Terminology’s role in U.S. healthcare paradigm shift

Progress on standardizing nutrition data in the EHR: An interview

Quality Payment Program proposed changes for 2018

What is Nursing Informatics?

Unintended consequences of new technologies in health care – thoughts on blockchains, part two

Unintended consequences of new technologies in health care – thoughts on blockchains, part one

Electronic health record display of lab results: The need for mass appeal

Reflections and predictions from the AMIA 2016 Annual Symposium

A guide to Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)

The Clinical Care Classification nursing standard

On convergence of open standards – CIMI and FHIR

Cloud Computing: Why it’s a better option

So you want to be an analyst?

Lessons from 3M’s Executive Summit: New care delivery models

How are my numbers? Analyzing your CAC data – Part 2

How are my numbers? Analyzing your CAC data

ICD-10 and the changing role of the healthcare technologist

Understanding the LOINC Document Ontology

When to use LOINC® specialist reviews

The evolution of CPT® code conventions

Ampersand (&) versus the plus (+) sign in LOINC ®

SNOMED CT Browser Hacks

The Challenges of Mapping CPT® to ICD-10-PCS

What is Qualitative Distinction in RxNorm?

There’s Nothing Sexy about Gender in LOINC®

What’s new for the 2018 ICD-10-CM

Working with UCUM

Mapping between the code systems of different countries: A case study – CCI to ICD-10-PCS

Many ‘Flavors’ of ICD

Mapping Molecular Diagnostic Techniques for Microorganisms to LOINC® Methods

Radiology within LOINC®

Tips to Identify the Correct LOINC Scale

Term Types in RxNorm

SNOMED CT Hierarchy & Structure

Mapping Radiology Orders to RadLex

Standardizing Microbiology Tests and Results to LOINC

Using the correct SNOMED CT domain

How RxNorm handles injectable medications

What’s new for the 2017 ICD-10-CM

Accurate Zika virus reporting using LOINC