Where does a drug concept in RxNorm go when it becomes obsolete or is no longer available on the U.S. market?

When a new LOINC version is released, The Eagles song ‘Life in the Fast Lane’ always comes to mind.

The latest release of LOINC (v2.65 Dec 2018) has a few laboratory updates for which you’ll want to check your existing mapping, and it’ll be great to get them done before the next release, anticipated for June 2019.

The challenge in mapping Anatomic Pathology (AP) reports to LOINC comes from interpreting the narrative nature of the AP information system fields that comprise a report and determining component and property attributes in LOINC.