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Tips and how-to articles from the 3M HDD team about various standard and local terminologies.

Merit-based Incentive Payment Systems

The Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) is part of the Medicare Quality Payment Program (QPP).
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Last modified on Monday, 29 November 2021 10:17

Drug Screens and LOINC

Drug testing remains a consistent part of the laboratory workload.
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Last modified on Tuesday, 19 October 2021 10:20

Traumatic injuries in SNOMED CT

SNOMED CT releases updates for their international edition twice a year on January 31st and July 31st.
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Last modified on Friday, 10 September 2021 11:32

LOINC® Release Change to August & February

Regenstrief Institute is changing the production release calendar for LOINC and its transition time!
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Last modified on Wednesday, 04 August 2021 08:50

COVID-19 Variant Monitoring

By now we’ve all heard about COVID-19 variants.
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Last modified on Wednesday, 23 June 2021 11:28

Three Easy Steps to Perform a LOINC® Update

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).
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Last modified on Wednesday, 19 May 2021 12:51

A Watched Pot Never Boils?

Have you ever had a project go off track and in trouble? Did any of them happen because of the COVID-19 pandemic?
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Last modified on Wednesday, 21 April 2021 12:29

Should drops be dropped?

Using the dose form of drops can complicate drug terminology mapping and introduce the possibility of mapping errors.
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Last modified on Wednesday, 24 March 2021 13:38

Maintaining Value Sets using SNOMED CT®

The HDD has over 6000 value sets; many including SNOMED CT codes that are updated after every release.
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Last modified on Thursday, 18 February 2021 12:31

The LOINC Part XXX: Going PG

The letter “X” can stand for so many things.
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Last modified on Wednesday, 20 January 2021 10:47