The laboratory team of the 3M clinical terminology group is in its 18th year of providing laboratory terminology consulting to the public.

Our experience with LOINC mapping has guided us to expect 75-85% identification of existing LOINCs for a test catalog, and we set customer expectations accordingly.

When a new LOINC version is released, The Eagles song ‘Life in the Fast Lane’ always comes to mind.

The LOINC® groups project by the Regenstrief Institute aims to give you a flexible, extensible, and computable mechanism for rolling up groups of LOINC codes for various purposes.

Parentheses, brackets and braces – called “enclosing glyphs” – are used in LOINC® for different purposes.

Many laboratory test panels include an expert review for overall interpretation as one of the results returned.

The ampersand character (&) used in normal everyday grammar is shorthand for the word and or in Latin “et”.

The inclusion of Radiology terms within LOINC® began in January 2000 with the purpose of specifying a distinct study from a generic report type.

Microbiology lab mapping often brings hand wringing and head banging...

The current Zika virus outbreak requires new entries to be created in laboratory information systems for the associated testing. Positive Zika virus results need to be reported to local, state and federal public health departments, and there are multiple LOINC terms depending on the details of the assay. Consider the following information as…