June 6-7, 2018
Regenstrief Institute
Indianapolis, Indiana
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LOINC Conference Summer 2018 Laboratory

Workshop Schedule

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 2018

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8:30 Registration

Please arrive early to pick up your registration. Full continental breakfast to be provided.

9:00

Welcome to LOINC

  • Daniel Vreeman

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An overview and welcome to our new event format, the LOINC community, the standard, and how it's being used around the world.

9:30

LOINC for Beginners

  • Jamalynne Deckard

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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.

Jami Deckard

LOINC Accessory Files

  • Swapna Abhyankar

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Each LOINC release includes multiple accessory artifacts that contain content related to the primary LOINC database. These artifacts include the Part and Answer file, Document Ontology file, LOINC/RSNA Radiology Playbook, Multi-axial hierarchy, and many others. This session will provide an in-depth review of those artifacts and will cover all of accessory files that are included in the LOINC release. For a detailed listing of the accessory files, please visit the downloads section of our website.

Swapna Abhyankar

Mapping Lab

  • John Hook, Mary Zabriskie

The mapping lab is an open space for hands-on mapping, with LOINC experts standing by to answer your questions. We’ll have content developers and software engineers ready to help. You bring your laptop, local codes, and RELMA (or fire up search.loinc.org) and get LOINCing!

John HookMary Zabriskie

10:45 Break

11:00

RELMA Part 1

  • Daniel Vreeman

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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.

Panels & Orders

  • Jamalynne Deckard, Sara Armson

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In this session, we will walk through the Panels and Forms accessory file, which is part of the LOINC release and includes all of the Panels in LOINC with their full structure, including their children, answer lists, skip logic, cardinality, and optionality. We will explain how panels are modeled in LOINC, and discuss the difference between panels and reports or clinical documents. We will also cover the current best practices for mapping your local panels 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.

Jami DeckardSara Armson

Mapping Lab

  • John Hook, Swapna Abhyankar

The mapping lab is an open space for hands-on mapping, with LOINC experts standing by to answer your questions. We’ll have content developers and software engineers ready to help. You bring your laptop, local codes, and RELMA (or fire up search.loinc.org) and get LOINCing!

John HookSwapna Abhyankar

12:15 Lunch

Catered lunch including vegetarian options to be provided.

1:00

LOINC Landscape from Canada

  • Lorie Carey (Canada Health Infoway)

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Journey back to the early days in Canada, before LOINC to see how the Laboratory landscape has changed in Canada. Learn why Canada decided to implement LOINC, how the LOINC standard was leveraged and why a Canadian extension of LOINC was required. See what the Canadian Lab Map looks like today and learn the multiple benefits to patients and health care providers obtained in at least one province. Examine the highlights of common challenges and obstacles as well as the synergy that occurred as LOINC rolled across the country.

Lorie Carey (CHI)

1:45 Break

2:00

RELMA Part 2

  • Daniel Vreeman

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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.

Microbiology IVD Mapping

  • Swapna Abhyankar, Mary Zabriskie

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This session will help users understand how to select LOINC codes for microbiology and infectious diseases laboratory tests, as well as present best practices for doing so. Topics will include mapping tests that are done to detect a variety of microorganisms, such as groups of bacteria, viruses and fungi as well as specific named organisms, by different methods including culture, microscopy, immunoassay and PCR-based methods. We will also review bacterial resistance testing and serological tests.

Swapna AbhyankarMary Zabriskie

Mapping Lab

  • John Hook, Sara Armson

The mapping lab is an open space for hands-on mapping, with LOINC experts standing by to answer your questions. We’ll have content developers and software engineers ready to help. You bring your laptop, local codes, and RELMA (or fire up search.loinc.org) and get LOINCing!

John HookSara Armson

3:15 Break

3:30

Submissions for Beginners

  • Jamalynne Deckard, Mary Zabriskie

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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.

Jami DeckardMary Zabriskie

LOINC on FHIR

  • Daniel Vreeman

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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.

Mapping Lab

  • John Hook, Swapna Abhyankar

The mapping lab is an open space for hands-on mapping, with LOINC experts standing by to answer your questions. We’ll have content developers and software engineers ready to help. You bring your laptop, local codes, and RELMA (or fire up search.loinc.org) and get LOINCing!

John HookSwapna Abhyankar

4:45 Reception

Learn more about this LOINC poster session and fun networking event. Cocktails and light snacks will be provided.