http://loinc.org News, announcements, and press releases related to LOINC daily 1 2006-04-10T16:12:47Z http://loinc.org/news/owners-of-loinc-npu-and-snomed-ct-begin-trial-of-cooperative-terminology-development-joint-press-release.html On April 1, 2009, the owners of three standards that contain laboratory test terminology – the Logical Observation Identifiers, Names, Codes (LOINC), Nomenclature, Properties and Units (NPU), and the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine - Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) – began an operational Trial of prospective divisions of labor in the generation of laboratory test terminology content. This Trial will provide practical experience and important information on opportunities to decrease duplication of effort in the development of laboratory test terminology and to ensure that SNOMED CT works effectively in combination with either LOINC or NPU. No publisher dvreeman 2009-04-06T19:15:14Z News Item http://loinc.org/news/loinc-version-2-26-and-relma-version-3-25-available.html Current LOINC and RELMA versions released January 10, 2009 No publisher dvreeman 2009-04-06T18:21:25Z News Item http://loinc.org/news/adopted-loinc-have-your-organization-listed-on-loinc.org.html Regenstrief is building an online directory of LOINC adopters. Have your organization listed. No publisher dvreeman 2008-07-23T12:53:42Z News Item http://loinc.org/news/loinc-version-2-24-and-relma-version-3-24-available.html Current LOINC and RELMA versions released July 10, 2008 No publisher dvreeman 2008-07-10T15:18:15Z News Item http://loinc.org/news/loinc-user-s-forum-launched.html Regenstrief is pleased to announce the launch of a new online LOINC User's Forum! No publisher dvreeman 2009-01-10T14:08:59Z News Item http://loinc.org/news/new-webserver-for-loinc.org.html The LOINC website has moved to a new server! No publisher dvreeman 2008-05-03T00:46:48Z News Item http://loinc.org/news/relma-version-3-22-available.html Current RELMA version released July 17, 2007 No publisher dvreeman 2007-07-27T18:03:08Z News Item http://loinc.org/news/loinc-presentations-at-amia-2006 Several presentations the AMIA 2006 Annual Symposium highlight LOINC. No publisher dvreeman 2006-10-26T00:48:21Z News Item http://loinc.org/news/draft-loinc-to-cpt-mappings-now-available HHS has given NLM the responsibility for funding, coordinating, and/or performing official mappings between standard clinical terminologies and HIPAA code sets. Several mappings are in various stages of development and technical validation. The draft "LNC215 to CPT2005 Mappings" is the first such map to be released for public review and comment. No publisher dvreeman 2006-12-15T14:21:41Z News Item http://loinc.org/news/loinc-version-2-22-and-relma-version-3-23-available.html Current LOINC and RELMA versions released December 3, 2007 No publisher dvreeman 2007-12-28T16:00:40Z News Item http://loinc.org/news/loinc-version-2-21-and-relma-version-3-21-available Current LOINC and RELMA versions released June 22, 2007 No publisher dvreeman 2007-06-22T18:27:36Z News Item http://loinc.org/news/ncvhs-approves-chi-recommendation-of-loinc-for-federally-required-patient-assessment-instruments NCVHS endorses the CHI recommendations for the Functioning and Disability domains, which includes the recommendation for representing patient assessment instruments, questions, and answers in Clinical LOINC. No publisher dvreeman 2007-01-24T13:55:24Z News Item http://loinc.org/news/loinc-version-2-19-and-relma-version-3-19-available Current LOINC and RELMA versions released December 22, 2006 No publisher dvreeman 2006-12-23T17:06:38Z News Item http://loinc.org/news/hhs-proposed-the-adoption-of-standards-for-claims-attachments On September 23, 2005, HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt proposed the adoption of standards for certain attachments to electronic health care claims No publisher dvreeman 2008-06-23T21:45:21Z News Item http://loinc.org/news/ncqa-and-hedis-announce-support-for-loinc The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) recently released specifications for the 2005 edition of its Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS) and announced that HEDIS will support the use of LOINC codes for some measures. No publisher dvreeman 2006-04-11T13:21:36Z News Item