The international standard for identifying health measurements, observations, and documents.
Reference labs, healthcare organizations, U.S. federal agencies, insurance companies, software vendors, in vitro diagnostic testing companies, and more than 85,500 registered users from 176 countries use LOINC to move data seamlessly between systems.
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