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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 Working Group Meeting, January 12-18, 2019, San Antonio, Texas

HIMSS19, February 11-15, 2019, Orlando, Florida

Spring 2019 Clinical LOINC Meeting, February 19-20, 2019, Salt Lake City, Utah

SNOMED CT International Meeting, April 07-10, 2019, London, United Kingdom

American Nurses Informatics Association (ANIA) 2019 Conference, April 11-13, 2019, Las Vegas, Nevada

HL7 International Conference & Working Group Meeting, May 4-10, 2019, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Lab LOINC Conference, June 5-6, 2019, Indianapolis, Indiana

HL7 FHIR DevDays, June 10-12, 2019, Redmond, Washington

North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR), June 8-13, 2019, Vancouver, BC, Ca…

ASM Microbe, June 20-24, 2019, San Francisco, California

Turn Data Into Intelligence

Bring Order to Chaos

Drive Value from Data

Focusing on CIMI: Getting the most out of the HL7 Working Group Meeting

Five things I learned from my EHR patient portal

Miles to go on interoperability

TEFCA Leaves Privacy Questions Unanswered

TEFCA: A beginning for nationwide interoperability

A dedication to data interoperability

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

How to contribute to SNOMED CT

What is a Map Set?

Mapping Specimens to SNOMED CT

What’s new for the 2019 ICD-10-CM

Parenthesis, Brackets and Braces in LOINC®

Searching for a LOINC® Document Ontology Term

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