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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 out more about our FHIR terminology server.

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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2020 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition, March 9-13, 2020, Orlando, FL

LOINC® Spring Conference, March 24-26, 2020, Indianapolis, IN

3M 2020 Client Experience Summit, July 28-30, 2020, Salt Lake City, UT

Turn Data Into Intelligence

Bring Order to Chaos

Drive Value from Data

Patient privacy and the use of health data for research

The Women in AMIA Leadership Program

September is Sepsis Awareness Month

Lines of communication: How laboratory ordering can go wrong

What’s for dinner? Creating something meaningful from raw data

Raising the bar: Implementing the latest LOINC release further supports interoperability

Keeping up with changing technology: The IAB Talks

What’s new in TEFCA 2

Why you should consider partnering with academia

Happy 25th to LOINC!

The first nosologists: Classifying disease in 16th century London

Terminologies - critical but often deferred in FHIR application development

LOINC groups: An idea to help searching in LOINC

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

Quickly Differentiating Drug Product from Substance in SNOMED CT

Keeping up with the Standards

What do you do when anything is possible in terminologies?

New Additions to ICD-10-CM for Fiscal Year 2020

Staying ahead of the curve: latest LOINC® release changes

Tracking an RxCUI Through Time

Life in the LOINC lane…Keeping up with the latest version

Handy Example Answers Help Decide LOINC® Scale Attribute

Increase your LOINC mapping in 2019

A simple tip for mapping Anatomic Pathology in LOINC

What is a HCPCS level II code?

Understanding LOINC® Groups

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?