The six attributes of a LOINC code are component, property, timing, system, scale and method.

You’ve heard the saying that “anything is possible”. Whether you fully buy into this adage or not – this may actually make terminology work difficult.

Chances are, whatever medical department you work in there are terminology standards with regularly scheduled updates.

The Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes—widely known as LOINC—is a standard terminology created to enable a common understanding of laboratory and clinical observations, such as lab tests and results, vital signs and other clinical measurements and procedures.

Terminologies - critical but often deferred in FHIR application development

Have you been searching for a concept in SNOMED CT only to realize it simply isn’t there, or have you found duplicated concepts that need to be corrected?

Here are the highlights from the upcoming fiscal year 2019 edition (effective October 1st, 2018):

Accurate deciphering of a medical laboratory specimen is crucial to the correct set up of the media/instrument prior to testing.

I recently attended the June 2018 Laboratory LOINC Conference in Indianapolis to get the latest LOINC updates. I have attended many previous meetings, but this time was special. My colleague Pam Banning received this year’s LOINC Award for Distinguished Contributions!

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