Invitation to the 2007 Public Laboratory LOINC® Workshop and Meeting

LOINC (Logical Observation Identifier Names and Codes) is a no-cost database of over 50,000 names and codes that identify laboratory, clinical, and HIPAA attachment variables.

Workshop and Meeting Purpose:

1. To educate users about the use and utility of LOINC codes.
2. To obtain public input
   

Why LOINC?
As the practice, regulation, and reimbursement of medicine become more complicated, we need a standard way to identify tests, and other clinical measurements-a common language for building electronic medical records, managing the clinical enterprise, doing research and work together-so we can speak the same language especially in terms of analyzing biological samples and interpreting test results. LOINC codes provide that language.

Register Online For the Workshop and/or Meeting

Meeting Details

Registration

• There is no registration fee
• Please register early to assist our planning.
• Register online for the workshop and/or meeting here.

Date/Time

December 03-04, 2007

Location

Indiana University Health Information and Translational Sciences (HITS) Building
Regenstrief Institute
410 West 10th St.
Indianapolis, Indiana

View map of the location

Who Should Attend?

• Individuals who are responsible for the maintenance and enhancement of laboratory information systems
• Laboratory discipline leaders who will be responsible for providing domain knowledge for the proper use of LOINC terms
• Laboratory professionals who wish to know more about standardizing their laboratory results, or are responsible for maintaining the laboratory test catalog

Prerequisite:

You must have obtained and read the LOINC users' guide and RELMA users' guide before attending.

LOINC Workshop (Monday, 12/03/2007)

Where

HITS building, 410 West 10th St, Room 110, Indianapolis, IN

Teleconference/LiveMeeting Information

• Teleconference Line:1-866-721-4749
• Participant passcode is 5167756
• LiveMeeting information: https://www306.livemeeting.com/cc/cdc/join?id=2RZ26T&role=present&pw=CDC-PHIN

Workshop Requirements

Because this will be a hands-on workshop, all participants should bring a laptop computer for the exercises. You should also bring a delimited-ASCII version of your local service catalog (test list). This file must contain the test code and test description. The OBR (battery) code and description, and units should also be included, if available. Details about format will be sent to you after registration for the workshop.

Materials provided

Presentation materials, example information model, full LOINC standard database, RELMA (LOINC mapping tool) will be provided.

Tentative Agenda (Monday, 12/03/2007)

LOINC Committee Meeting (Tuesday, 12/04/2007) - Public is Invited to Attend

Where

HITS building, 410 West 10th St, Room 110, Indianapolis, IN

Teleconference/LiveMeeting Information

• Teleconference Line:1-866-721-4749
• Participant passcode is 5167756
• LiveMeeting information: https://www306.livemeeting.com/cc/cdc/join?id=2RZ26T&role=present&pw=CDC-PHIN

Tentative Agenda (Tuesday, 12/04/2007)

Hotel and Travel Information

Fly or drive

The Indianapolis International Airport is located on the west side of Indianapolis. The meeting will be held at the new Indiana University Health Information and Transitional Sciences building located about a mile east of the Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI) campus, about a 25-minute drive from the airport, close to the center of the city. Taxi/limousine service is available at the airport on the terminal side of lower terminal drive (Yellow Cab: 317-487-777; Carey Indiana: 317-241-7100; Affinity Limousine & Tours: 317-870-5466).

The IUPUI campus and IU Medical Center are about 3 hours from Chicago, 2 hours from Cincinnati, and 2 hours from Louisville. See maps and directions.

The University Place Conference Center and Hotel is located on the IUPUI / IU Medical Center campus, approximately a mile from the meeting location (see map with route to meeting). Reservations are to be made by individual attendees directly with the hote (1-800-627-2700 (select Option #1) or 1-317-269-9000). To ensure you receive the special group rate, please reference the group code "LOINC " and make your reservation by 5:00 p.m. on November 8, 2007 .

Single occupancy at the hotel (if you reference the "LOINC" block of rooms) is $135.00. Guests are responsible for their own room, tax and incidental charges. All guests are required to present a valid credit card at the time of registration. Reservations canceled less than 24 hrs. prior to the day of arrival and/or "no-show" rooms will be billed to the respective guest's credit card.

Check-in time is 4:00 p.m. Guests arriving early will be accommodated as rooms become available. Check-out time is 11:00 a.m. The hotel requests that guests attending functions on their day of departure check out by 11:00 a.m. The hotel bell staff will arrange to store luggage until guest departure (luggage storage is also available at the meeting site).

Hotel Transportation and parking

Driving directions from the Indianapolis Airport to the hotel: Go East on I-70, take West Street exit. Turn left on West Street and proceed to Michigan Street, turn left. The University Place Hotel is two blocks on the right.Turn right on University Boulevard, turn right on North Street, and the hotel lobby will be on the right.

The hotel does not provide complimentary shuttle service to and from the airport, but a shuttle is available (on a first come-first served basis) for rides within a 3-mile radius, including downtown and the meeting location. Parking is available in the hotel underground garage beginning at $2.00 (for the first half hour) up to $12.00 for a full day and/or overnight guests. Guests will be responsible for their own parking charges.

Meeting Transportation and parking

Parking is limited at the HITS building.  We recommend parking at the IUPUI campus if you do not utilize the hotel parking garage (see grey buildings on the Medical Center map ), particularly the Wilson Street Parking Garage (PK on the map), located at 811 N. Wilson OR the Wishard Parking Garage (WK on the map), located at the intersection of Walnut St/University Blvd.  We can validate your parking ticket if you park in either of these garages.

From either of the garages, you can walk to the meeting location (see map and directions), or take the Clarian People Mover, an elevated transit system with stop close to the the Wilson Street and Wishard parking garages and the HITS building.  We will provide more detailed directions to registered participants at a later date.

Area attractions

Check the following web sites for things to see and do in the Indianapolis, Indiana area.

http://www.indy.org/

http://www.in.gov/enjoyindiana/

Interested, But Unable to Attend?

If you are interested but unable to attend, the minutes will be posted on the LOINC website.

We would appreciate if you would provide us with the names and contact information of others you think would be interested in this workshop and meeting.

Acknowledgment

We gratefully acknowledge support from the National Library of Medicine (representing the Department of Health and Human Services), the Department of Defense, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Department of Veterans Affairs, for this effort.

Clement J. McDonald, M.D.

Chairman, LOINC Committee
Director Emeritus, Regenstrief Institute
Regenstrief Professor Emeritus of Medical Informatics
Indiana University School of Medicine