Have you ever come home after a long day’s work and after looking in the refrigerator and pantry wondered, “What should I make for dinner?”

The year 2019 marks the 250th anniversary since the Scottish physician and professor, William Cullen, published the book “Synopsis Nosologiae Methodicae”. He, and other pioneers in the field of nosology, made it easier for physicians to classify diseases and diagnose patients’ ailments as well as promote early tracking of health outcomes.

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.

The September 2018 Health Level 7 (HL7) international working group meeting was held in Baltimore, Maryland and was packed full of user tutorials and learning sessions.

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.

When mapping a drug from your local formulary to RxNorm, you may come across two different RxNorm drug concepts with the same ingredient, strength, form and route.

By now, you may have come across sex and gender being treated as two separate concepts, which sometimes results in confusion and overlap in how they are used to encode data in healthcare, especially if the two domains appear to share the same members (e.g., male and female in both value sets).

The fiscal year 2018 edition (effective October 1st, 2017) has fewer changes than the previous year’s update, but the revisions are useful and highly anticipated. Here are the highlights:

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