Given the need for new laboratory and clinical terminology codes, driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Spring LOINCconference of 2021 grew by one more day to address a variety of projects ...
... billing codes act as bigger buckets for less commonly named specimens. Early in the development of LOINC, the committee thought they’d use a placeholder of XXX for the attribute that wasn’t specified. ...
... and supporting information for epidemiologic case work. Public health departments then forward statistics up to a national level.
During the recent Spring LOINC1 conference, a representative from the ...