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Tips (44)

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

Leveraging PHIN VADS to Coordinate SNOMED CT and LOINC in Electronic Public Health Reporting

Wednesday, 25 March 2020 14:43
Pam Banning

It may seem daunting to implement the two standards within your local database for public health reporting, especially if you’re a team of one, but you can leverage the work of experts from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the Public Health Information Network Vocabulary Access Distribution System (PHIN VADS).

Last modified on Wednesday, 25 March 2020 15:02

Let’s get philosophical: Using classical logic exercises to understand mapping

Wednesday, 26 February 2020 12:43
Stephen Weaver

When is Tylenol the same as acetaminophen?

Last modified on Wednesday, 26 February 2020 13:47

Preventing information overload and making smart choices with interaction design

Wednesday, 29 January 2020 11:12
Marisa Ireland

For the first Tip of the Month of 2020, we’d like to present something very different from the details of terminologies and mappings, and that is how we support working with these terminologies and mappings from a technology perspective.

Last modified on Wednesday, 29 January 2020 11:23

Quickly Differentiating Drug Product from Substance in SNOMED CT

Wednesday, 18 December 2019 09:46
Michael Totzke

When you search SNOMED CT for a medication such as Ibuprofen, you will find many possible matches, two of which are:

Last modified on Friday, 14 February 2020 10:11

Handy Example Answers Help Decide LOINC® Scale Attribute

Wednesday, 27 November 2019 08:04
Pam Banning

The six attributes of a LOINC code are component, property, timing, system, scale and method.

Last modified on Thursday, 19 December 2019 13:48

Keeping up with the Standards

Thursday, 31 October 2019 12:03
Lee Min Lau

Chances are, whatever medical department you work in there are terminology standards with regularly scheduled updates.

Last modified on Thursday, 16 January 2020 13:56

What do you do when anything is possible in terminologies?

Wednesday, 25 September 2019 08:43
Dean Woolstenhulme

You’ve heard the saying that “anything is possible”. Whether you fully buy into this adage or not – this may actually make terminology work difficult.

Last modified on Thursday, 19 December 2019 13:50