LOINC releases new versions twice a year, usually June and December, although there was talk of changing the release months in the latest spring conference (March 9-12, 2021).

By now we’ve all heard about COVID-19 variants.

Have you ever had a project go off track and in trouble? Did any of them happen because of the COVID-19 pandemic?

Using the dose form of drops can complicate drug terminology mapping and introduce the possibility of mapping errors.

The HDD has over 6000 value sets; many including SNOMED CT codes that are updated after every release.

The letter “X” can stand for so many things.

Dealing with an ocean of data can be exhausting and intimidating.

Expression Constraint Language (ECL) is unique to SNOMED CT and allows users to build computable rules from SNOMED CT’s hierarchy and/or relationship groups.

“Head, shoulders, knees and toes! Knees and Toes!”

Amid the initial outbreak of COVID-19 in the United States, the HDD team created several new value sets collecting the relevant standard codes, to be provided free to anyone who may find them useful in data identification in relation to the crisis.