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.

Our clinical terminology team’s background in nursing, pharmacy, radiology, laboratory and other clinical areas gives us insight into how health care systems are burdened with the sheer volume of data being collected on COVID-19 patients.

Ever been caught off guard hearing about UFO sightings because the physics makes no sense?

Drug testing remains a consistent part of the laboratory workload.

Regenstrief Institute is changing the production release calendar for LOINC and its transition time!

On March 11 of last year, the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak a global pandemic.

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

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).

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.