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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

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

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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 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

29th Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics, July 17-19, 2019, Baltimore, MD

71st AACC Annual Scientific Meeting & Clinical Lab Expo, August 4-8, 2019, Anaheim, CA

Fall 2019 Clinical LOINC Meeting, August 28-29, 2019, Salt Lake City, UT

ASCP Annual Meeting, September 11-13, 2019, Phoenix, AZ

33rd Annual HL7 Plenary & Working Group Meeting, September 14-20, 2019, Atlanta, GA

SNOMED CT Expo 2019, October 31-November 1, 2019, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

AMIA 2019 Annual Symposium, November 16-20, 2019, Washington, D.C.

HL7 FHIR DevDays, November 20-22, 2019, Amsterdam

Turn Data Into Intelligence

Bring Order to Chaos

Drive Value from Data

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

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

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?

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