2023 LOINC Conference Atlanta and online

October 17-20, 2023

Georgia World Congress Center and Online

Join colleagues from around the world at this event dedicated to LOINC and interoperability

Experts focused on addressing health data interoperability issues will coalesce at the 2023 LOINC Conference for four days of education, community presentations, and networking. Join a wide range of participants—software and device manufacturers, healthcare providers, patients, reference labs, government agencies, researchers, students, and others—at this special event.

Georgia World Congress Center

BUILDING A, CONCOURSE 4

Andrea PItkus

2023 Recipient of the LOINC Award for Distinguished Contributions

Participants from 32 countries registered to attend

Argentina
Armenia
Australia
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
Chile
China
Curaçao
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
India
Indonesia
Iran, Islamic Republic of
Italy
Korea, Republic of
Netherlands
New Zealand
Philippines
Poland
Singapore
Spain
Sri Lanka
Switzerland
Taiwan
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United Republic of Tanzania
United States
Uruguay

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Conference Schedule

All times are EDT (Atlanta, GA)

Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday

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Tuesday, October 17 Pre-Conference Education Day

8:00 a.m.

Opening Remarks

Eza Hafeza, Regenstrief Institute
April Lackey, Regenstrief Institute
Steven Wagers, Regenstrief Institute

8:15 a.m.

Introduction to LOINC

Eza Hafeza, Regenstrief Institute
Geoffrey Ratemo, Regenstrief Institute
Elizabeth Lumakovska, Regenstrief Institute
Felicia Owens, Regenstrief Institute
Cynthia Lundberg, Regenstrief Institute

10:15 a.m.

Break

Refreshments to be provided.

10:30 a.m.

Advanced LOINC

David Baorto, NewYork-Presbyterian Health System
Marjorie Rallins, Regenstrief Institute

11:45 a.m.

Lunch

Meal to be provided.

1:00 p.m.

LOINC's Online Resources

Steven Wagers, Regenstrief Institute
Tim Briscoe, Regenstrief Institute

2:00 p.m.

Requesting New LOINC Concepts

Eza Hafeza, Regenstrief Institute
Steven Wagers, Regenstrief Institute

2:30 p.m.

Mapping LOINC

Pam Banning, Laboratory LOINC Committee Chair

3:00 p.m.

Break

Refreshments to be provided.

3:15 p.m.

LOINC and FHIR for Non-developers

Tim Briscoe, Regenstrief Institute

4:00 p.m.

Ask the LOINC Team

Eza Hafeza, Regenstrief Institute
April Lackey, Regenstrief Institute
Steven Wagers, Regenstrief Institute

4:30 p.m.

Closing Remarks

Pam Banning, Laboratory LOINC Committee Chair

4:45 p.m.

End of Day

Wednesday, October 18 Opening Events & Community Presentations

8:00 a.m.

Opening Remarks

Marjorie Rallins, Executive Director of Health Data Standards, Regenstrief Institute
Rachel Patzer, President & CEO, Regenstrief Institute

Video Slides

8:30 a.m.

Keynote

Clem McDonald Lecture

Eric Schneider, Executive Vice President National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)

Video Slides

9:00 a.m.

LOINC Awards & Announcements

Stan Huff Education Award
LOINC Award for Distinguished Contributions

Video 1 Video 2 Slides

9:30 a.m.

Break

Refreshments to be provided.

9:45 a.m.

U.S. Federal Partner Updates

Featuring representatives from:

Patrick McLaughlin, National Library of Medicine
Sara Armson, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT
Lorraine Wickiser, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Keith Campbell, U.S. Food & Drug Administration

Video Slides

10:45 a.m.

LOINC, a Universal Standard for Test Orders and Observations: A 20-year Update

Clem McDonald, Senior Investigator, U.S. National Library of Medicine

Video Slides

11:30 a.m.

Lunch

Meal to be provided.

TRACK 1 Implementation & Innovation Learn about innovative implementations and applications of LOINC that solve interoperability challenges across the spectrum of health care.	TRACK 2 Policy, Process, & Operations Engage with thought leaders and explore top-of-mind policy, process and operational issues influenced by informatics and using LOINC.
12:45 p.m. Semantic Interoperability: The Vision of What Could Be Stan Huff, Graphite Health	12:45 p.m. Adopting LOINC as a National Laboratory Standard in Singapore: Progress, Challenges, and Future Ahead Andrea Wu, Synapxe (Singapore)
1:30 p.m. The Power of LOINC Hierarchies for Creating Subsets Rob McClure, MD Partners Chris Schuler, Smile Digital Health Steven Wagers, Regenstrief Institute	1:30 p.m. Introducing Health Information Exchange into Dental Clinics Shuning Li, Indiana University School of Dentistry
2:15 p.m. Break Refreshments to be provided.
2:30 p.m. Digital Modeling of Primary Child Health Liesbeth Siderius, Rare Care World (The Netherlands) Sahan Perera, Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)	2:30 p.m. In-Roads: Advancing LOINC Adoption in Clinical Trials Pam Banning, 3M Health Information Systems
3:15 p.m. Developing Nursing Assessments using LOINC and SNOMED CT Susan Matney, Independent Consultant Christine Spisla, Deloitte	3:15 p.m. Managing Metadata and Mapping: The Potential for Large Language Models to Augment Vocabulary Management Shaun Grannis, Regenstrief Institute

TRACK 1

Implementation & Innovation

Learn about innovative implementations and applications of LOINC that solve interoperability challenges across the spectrum of health care.

TRACK 2

Policy, Process, & Operations

Engage with thought leaders and explore top-of-mind policy, process and operational issues influenced by informatics and using LOINC.

12:45 p.m.

Semantic Interoperability: The Vision of What Could Be

Stan Huff, Graphite Health

12:45 p.m.

Adopting LOINC as a National Laboratory Standard in Singapore: Progress, Challenges, and Future Ahead

Andrea Wu, Synapxe (Singapore)

1:30 p.m.

The Power of LOINC Hierarchies for Creating Subsets

Rob McClure, MD Partners
Chris Schuler, Smile Digital Health
Steven Wagers, Regenstrief Institute

1:30 p.m.

Introducing Health Information Exchange into Dental Clinics

Shuning Li, Indiana University School of Dentistry

2:15 p.m.

Break

Refreshments to be provided.

2:30 p.m.

Digital Modeling of Primary Child Health

Liesbeth Siderius, Rare Care World (The Netherlands)
Sahan Perera, Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)

2:30 p.m.

In-Roads: Advancing LOINC Adoption in Clinical Trials

Pam Banning, 3M Health Information Systems

3:15 p.m.

Developing Nursing Assessments using LOINC and SNOMED CT

Susan Matney, Independent Consultant
Christine Spisla, Deloitte

3:15 p.m.

Managing Metadata and Mapping: The Potential for Large Language Models to Augment Vocabulary Management

Shaun Grannis, Regenstrief Institute

4:00 p.m.

Closing Plenary

Rob McClure, LOINC Document Ontology Committee Chair

4:15 p.m.

End of Day

Conference Reception

Join us on-site immediately following Wednesday's events, from 4:15 to 5:45, for a welcome reception. Light hors d'oeuvres and drinks will be served. We trust this will be a great time to engage in social conversations and networking, plus some casual fun. (Sorry, online attendance for this event will not be offered.)

Thursday, October 19 Community Presentations

8:00 a.m.

A Fireside Chat with the National Coordinator for Health IT

Micky Tripathi, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Marjorie Rallins, Executive Director of Health Data Standards, Regenstrief Institute
Shaun Grannis, Vice President of Data and Analytics, Regenstrief Institute
Brian Dixon, Director of Public Health Informatics, Regenstrief Institute

Video

TRACK 1 Implementation & Innovation Learn about innovative implementations and applications of LOINC that solve interoperability challenges across the spectrum of health care.	TRACK 2 Policy, Process, & Operations Engage with thought leaders and explore top-of-mind policy, process and operational issues influenced by informatics and using LOINC.	TRACK 3 Virtual Presentations Our virtual track includes sessions topics from the Policy, Process and Operation track as well as the Implementation and Innovation track.
9:00 a.m. Leveraging Technology to Improve Health Equity Rick Whitted, U.S. Hunger Ezekiel Brooks, U.S. Hunger	9:00 a.m. ONC Driving Advancement in Laboratory Interoperability Sara Armson, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC)	9:00 a.m. Open
9:45 a.m. Break Refreshments to be provided.
10:00 a.m. Navigation Tips for Novice LOINC Mappers Pam Banning, 3M Health Information Systems	10:00 a.m. Terminology Adoption in Global Health Settings Joseph Amlung, Global Health Informatics at Regenstrief Institute Jonathan Payne, Global Health Informatics at Regenstrief Institute	10:00 a.m. Spanish Regional Health Area Normalization, Unifying 26 Laboratory Catalogs Vicky Bérez, Bitac MAP S.L. (Spain)
10:45 a.m. Thinking Outside the Box: Using an Integrated Knowledge Management Environment to Model LOINC Terms Christine Spisla, Deloitte W. Scott Campbell, University of Nebraska Stephen Powell, Synensys, LLC Raja Cholan, Deloitte	10:45 a.m. LOINC Management in Reference Labs Jenna Rychert, ARUP Laboratories	10:45 a.m. The Dutch ICU Data Warehouse: Towards a Standardized Multicenter Electronic Health Record Database Ameet Jagesar, Amsterdam UMC, Intensive Care department (The Netherlands)
11:30 a.m. Lunch Meal to be provided.
12:45 p.m. Scalable Mapping of Clinical Notes to LOINC Document Ontology via Bag of Words Huzaifa Khan, University of Missouri Dave Bell, University of Missouri	12:45 p.m. Looking Back to Leap Forward: Retrospective Clinical Lab Data Cleaning with CleanLab Package for Enhanced LOINC Mapping & Improving Data Quality Ahmed Zayed, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)	12:45 p.m. One Year On: An Improved Linguistic Approach for Mapping French Laboratory Terminologies with LOINC Fleur Brun, Onaos (France) Théodore Michel-Picque, Onaos (France)
1:30 p.m. LOINC Groups Implementation in a Real-World Network Scenario David Rubio Ruiz, TriNetX	1:30 p.m. Optimizing EHRs: Harnessing LOINC to Streamline Clinical Data and Improve Patient Care Jordon Ritchie, AI Medica Inc.	1:30 p.m. Experience of Mapping of Diagnostic Testing Variables for International Clinical Studies to LOINC Terms Eugenia Rinaldi, Charité University Hospital (Germany) Caroline Stellmach, Charité University Hospital (Germany)
2:15 p.m. Break Refreshments to be provided.
2:30 p.m. Advancing Interoperability and Health Equity: Mapping a Comprehensive SDOH Assessment with LOINC David Brown, Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine Jennifer Vargas, Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine Sheida Khosravaniardakani, Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine Rachel Clarke, Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine	2:30 p.m. A Proposal to Support LOINC Coding into Italian Laboratories: LARA-AI Model Alessandro Liscio, (Italy) Monica Moz, Dedalus (Italy) Maria Teresa Chiaravalloti, (Italy)	2:30 p.m. Collaborative Development of LOINC In Vitro Diagnostic (LIVD) Test Code Mapping for SARS-CoV-2 Christina Gallegos, Association of Public Health Laboratories Ed Heierman, IVD Industry Connectivity Consortium
3:15 p.m. INFRA:INFection Radar - LOINC and Clinical Decision Support Olga Endrich, Inselspital University Hospital Bern (Switzerland) Karen Triep, Inselspital University Hospital Bern (Switzerland)	3:15 p.m. LOINC: A Catalyst for Cross-border Data Sharing and Interoperability - Lessons from Real-life Case Studies Pallavi Vaswani, Indiana University	3:15 p.m. SHIELD for Adoption of LOINC & SNOMED-CT for Lab Interoperability Andrea Pitkus, SHIELD Riki Merrick, Association of Public Health Laboratories
4:00 p.m. Results from a System Safety Analysis of the U.S. Laboratory Data Ecosystem: How LOINC Impacts System Safety Stephen Powell, Synensys, LLC W. Scott Campbell, University of Nebraska Greg Watkins, Deloitte Consulting, LLP	4:00 p.m. The Application of LOINC in the Standardization of Inspection in Chinese Hospitals Mengchun Gong, Digital Health China Technologies Co., LTD. (China)	4:00 p.m. Open

TRACK 1

Implementation & Innovation

Learn about innovative implementations and applications of LOINC that solve interoperability challenges across the spectrum of health care.

TRACK 2

Policy, Process, & Operations

Engage with thought leaders and explore top-of-mind policy, process and operational issues influenced by informatics and using LOINC.

TRACK 3

Virtual Presentations

Our virtual track includes sessions topics from the Policy, Process and Operation track as well as the Implementation and Innovation track.

9:00 a.m.

Leveraging Technology to Improve Health Equity

Rick Whitted, U.S. Hunger
Ezekiel Brooks, U.S. Hunger

9:00 a.m.

ONC Driving Advancement in Laboratory Interoperability

Sara Armson, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC)

9:00 a.m.

Open

9:45 a.m.

Break

Refreshments to be provided.

10:00 a.m.

Navigation Tips for Novice LOINC Mappers

Pam Banning, 3M Health Information Systems

10:00 a.m.

Terminology Adoption in Global Health Settings

Joseph Amlung, Global Health Informatics at Regenstrief Institute
Jonathan Payne, Global Health Informatics at Regenstrief Institute

10:00 a.m.

Spanish Regional Health Area Normalization, Unifying 26 Laboratory Catalogs

Vicky Bérez, Bitac MAP S.L. (Spain)

10:45 a.m.

Thinking Outside the Box: Using an Integrated Knowledge Management Environment to Model LOINC Terms

Christine Spisla, Deloitte
W. Scott Campbell, University of Nebraska
Stephen Powell, Synensys, LLC
Raja Cholan, Deloitte

10:45 a.m.

LOINC Management in Reference Labs

Jenna Rychert, ARUP Laboratories

10:45 a.m.

The Dutch ICU Data Warehouse: Towards a Standardized Multicenter Electronic Health Record Database

Ameet Jagesar, Amsterdam UMC, Intensive Care department (The Netherlands)

11:30 a.m.

Lunch

Meal to be provided.

12:45 p.m.

Scalable Mapping of Clinical Notes to LOINC Document Ontology via Bag of Words

Huzaifa Khan, University of Missouri
Dave Bell, University of Missouri

12:45 p.m.

Looking Back to Leap Forward: Retrospective Clinical Lab Data Cleaning with CleanLab Package for Enhanced LOINC Mapping & Improving Data Quality

Ahmed Zayed, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)

12:45 p.m.

One Year On: An Improved Linguistic Approach for Mapping French Laboratory Terminologies with LOINC

Fleur Brun, Onaos (France)
Théodore Michel-Picque, Onaos (France)

1:30 p.m.

LOINC Groups Implementation in a Real-World Network Scenario

David Rubio Ruiz, TriNetX

1:30 p.m.

Optimizing EHRs: Harnessing LOINC to Streamline Clinical Data and Improve Patient Care

Jordon Ritchie, AI Medica Inc.

1:30 p.m.

Experience of Mapping of Diagnostic Testing Variables for International Clinical Studies to LOINC Terms

Eugenia Rinaldi, Charité University Hospital (Germany)
Caroline Stellmach, Charité University Hospital (Germany)

2:15 p.m.

Break

Refreshments to be provided.

2:30 p.m.

Advancing Interoperability and Health Equity: Mapping a Comprehensive SDOH Assessment with LOINC

David Brown, Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine
Jennifer Vargas, Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine
Sheida Khosravaniardakani, Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine
Rachel Clarke, Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine

2:30 p.m.

A Proposal to Support LOINC Coding into Italian Laboratories: LARA-AI Model

Alessandro Liscio, (Italy)
Monica Moz, Dedalus (Italy)
Maria Teresa Chiaravalloti, (Italy)

2:30 p.m.

Collaborative Development of LOINC In Vitro Diagnostic (LIVD) Test Code Mapping for SARS-CoV-2

Christina Gallegos, Association of Public Health Laboratories
Ed Heierman, IVD Industry Connectivity Consortium

3:15 p.m.

INFRA:INFection Radar - LOINC and Clinical Decision Support

Olga Endrich, Inselspital University Hospital Bern (Switzerland)
Karen Triep, Inselspital University Hospital Bern (Switzerland)

3:15 p.m.

LOINC: A Catalyst for Cross-border Data Sharing and Interoperability - Lessons from Real-life Case Studies

Pallavi Vaswani, Indiana University

3:15 p.m.

SHIELD for Adoption of LOINC & SNOMED-CT for Lab Interoperability

Andrea Pitkus, SHIELD
Riki Merrick, Association of Public Health Laboratories

4:00 p.m.

Results from a System Safety Analysis of the U.S. Laboratory Data Ecosystem: How LOINC Impacts System Safety

Stephen Powell, Synensys, LLC
W. Scott Campbell, University of Nebraska
Greg Watkins, Deloitte Consulting, LLP

4:00 p.m.

The Application of LOINC in the Standardization of Inspection in Chinese Hospitals

Mengchun Gong, Digital Health China Technologies Co., LTD. (China)

4:00 p.m.

Open

4:45 p.m.

Closing Plenary

W. Ted Klein, Clinical LOINC Committee Co-Chair

5:00 p.m.

End of Day

Friday, October 20 Collaboration and Committee Updates

8:00 a.m.

Morning Plenary

Julia Skapik, Medical Director for Informatics National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC)

Video Slides

9:00 a.m.

Moving Interoperability Forward Together: SNOMED CT® and LOINC® collaboration—Where Are We Now?

Marjorie Rallins, Executive Director of Health Data Standards, Regenstrief Institute
Rory Davidson, SNOMED International
Jim Case, SNOMED International
Stan Huff, Clinical LOINC Committee Co-Chair

Video Slides

10:00 a.m.

Break

Refreshments to be provided.

10:15 a.m.

Continued: Updates on Regenstrief/SNOMED Collaboration

11:15 a.m.

Lunch

Meal to be provided.

12:30 p.m.

LOINC Committee Updates

Multiple Presenters

Video Slides

1:30 p.m.

Discussion of Cross-Cutting Committee Issues

Moderated by Virginia Riehl

Video Slides

3:30 p.m.

Closing Plenary

Marjorie Rallins, Executive Director of Health Data Standards, Regenstrief Institute
Stan Huff, Clinical LOINC Committee Co-Chair

Video

3:45 p.m.