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Pam Banning

Pam Banning

Pamela Banning, MLS(ASCP), PMP(PMI) has been a member of the 3M HDD team since 1999. As a certified medical laboratory scientist with the American Society of Clinical Pathology, she worked in a variety of healthcare settings such as doctors’ offices, a rural hospital, a trauma center and a national reference laboratory. She migrated into laboratory system database administration, and was introduced to vocabulary standards during implementation projects for LOINC and SNOMED CT. She continues her service as a founding member of the laboratory LOINC committee and represented our team on the Office of National Coordinator Standards (ONC)/Interoperability Framework work group with past focuses including orders implementation guide development, results implementation guide development, and LOINC order code development. Her presentations on project management of terminology implementations at national industry conferences include poster sessions, roundtables, podium lectures, papers and recorded webinars. Pam currently serves on the FDA’s SHIELD team (Systemic Harmonization and Interoperability Enhancement for Laboratory Data), HL7’s LIVD workgroup (LOINC In Vitro Diagnostics), and as the laboratory LOINC committee co-chair for Regenstrief Institute.

Latest from Pam Banning

The laboratory team of the 3M clinical terminology group is in its 18th year of providing laboratory terminology consulting to the public.
Graduating with two Bachelor of Science degrees (biology and medical technology), the sciences ruled my younger world.
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?
My husband and I are very fortunate to have our surviving parents reach their eighth decade, even though one has received a diagnosis of dementia.

LOINC® Release Change to August & February

  • Wednesday, 04 August 2021 08:42
Regenstrief Institute is changing the production release calendar for LOINC and its transition time!
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.

A Watched Pot Never Boils?

  • Wednesday, 21 April 2021 12:18
Have you ever had a project go off track and in trouble? Did any of them happen because of the COVID-19 pandemic?