Oct. 9-10
WTC Utah
Salt Lake City
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Hosted by Intermountain Healthcare
Workshop Schedule
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2018
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Welcome to LOINC
- Daniel Vreeman
An overview and welcome to our new event format, the LOINC community, the standard, and how it's being used around the world.
LOINC for Beginners
- Jamalynne Deckard
LOINC is the universal standard for identifying health measurements, observations, and documents. It is now ubiquitous in health data systems worldwide, and is an essential ingredient of system interoperability. This tutorial presents an overview of LOINC and its use around the world, discusses the LOINC concept model and data structures, and describes the resources available for implementing LOINC. If you are new(ish) to LOINC, this session should be your starting point.
Clinical Documents in LOINC
- Swapna Abhyankar
This session provides a detailed introduction to LOINC content for health-related documents. We'll cover the purpose and development of the detailed concept model for clinical document titles known as the LOINC Document Ontology. We will explore how you can make use of these terms in your IT systems, the lessons others have gleaned from implementing, and future directions for this ever-evolving content area.
RELMA Part 1
- Daniel Vreeman
RELMA is the gold standard tool for mapping your local observation codes to LOINC. In Part 1, we’ll cover a high level roadmap of mapping with RELMA, how to setup and load your local terms into RELMA, and keys for mapping success with RELMA.
LOINC: A Clinician's Perspective
- Susan Matney
Learn how LOINC is used to document different parts of the clinical process including assessments and outcomes. and how LOINC is used for continual data use including quality measures, eMeasures, registries, and research.
The Importance of using LOINC as an Interoperability Standard for Large-scale Public Health Programs
- Susan Matney, Nathan Davis
This presentation will review the creation of standardized terminology, information models and FHIR Profiles for the Office of Population Affairs (OPA) Family Planning Annual Report 2.0 (FPAR 2.0). Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) defines a standard data model for healthcare data. However, to assure a standard, FHIR resources must be constrained and bound to LOINC and other standardized terminologies. Binding these profiles to reference terminologies also serves to define a sharable and comparable data model.
RELMA Part 2
- Daniel Vreeman
In Part 2 of mapping with RELMA series, we’ll dive deep into how to optimize the mapping process with RELMA, become a search syntax ninja, and how to set yourself up for success in the long run.
Panels and Forms
- Swapna Abhyankar
In this session, we will explain how panels are modeled in LOINC, and discuss the difference between panels for lab orders, reports, and forms/surveys. We will also walk through the advanced attributes of LOINC panels, including optionality, cardinality, skip logic, override answer lists, and more. We will take a deep dive into two LOINC accessory files, the Panels and Forms File and Answer File. Finally, we will cover the current best practices for mapping to LOINC panels including business rules about required versus optional elements and methodless terms versus codes with methods, making you an expert in mapping to these important terms.
Submissions for Beginners
- Jamalynne Deckard
LOINC content is created based on user requests, and we have a variety of methods by which you can submit your new term requests. This workshop will teach you how to submit new LOINC requests to Regenstrief, either through RELMA or using one of our four submission templates. We will review what primary information and supporting materials are required and/or recommended for different types of requests. In addition, we will describe the lifecycle of a submission, starting with your request, primary processing, quality review, and finally, publication of the new LOINC code.
LOINC on FHIR
- Daniel Vreeman
FHIR and LOINC go together like chips and salsa: FHIR’s standardized resources and API are the perfect delivery vehicle for clinical data coded with LOINC, the freely available international vocabulary standard for identifying health measurements, observations, and documents. In this session, we’ll explore how FHIR is transforming the health IT landscape, tour the common FHIR resources where you can make use of LOINC coded health data, and explore the LOINC-specific features in FHIR’s terminology services.
At this time attendees may pick up their P.A.C.E. certificates from the registration area.