Given the need for new laboratory and clinical terminology codes, driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Spring LOINC conference of 2021 grew by one more day to address a variety of projects and LOINC advancements.

Patient matching—the ability to match a person to their correct medical record—is a perennial issue in health IT.

It has been 20 weeks since the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11, 2020.

It has been over 100 years since the Spanish Flu spread across the globe.

We know the importance of quick and accurate COVID-19 testing, but do we know when to get tested or even when to seek medical attention?

We’ve all been hearing about the shortage of SARS-CoV-2 testing kits and materials, but there’s another shortage in the labs that hasn’t been widely mentioned.

We’re all hearing daily about how much COVID-19 testing is taking place and how many people are diagnosed or cleared from it.

Unprecedented times call for unprecedented measures.

Privacy and analytics were two of the predominant themes in the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2019 Annual Symposium in Washington, D.C. last year.

Wuhan, the capital of Central China’s Hubei province, is under siege.