- WORKSHOPS
Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017
8:30 a.m. - 4:45 p.m. EST
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- COMMITTEE MEETING
Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017
7:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. EST
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- Regenstrief Institute
1101 W. 10th St.
Indianapolis, IN 46202
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Workshop Schedule
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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
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
- Daniel Vreeman
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.
LOINC Accessory Files
- Swapna Abhyankar
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.
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!
10:45 Break
11:00
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.
Panels & Orders
- Jamalynne Deckard, Sara Armson
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.
Mapping Lab
- John Hook, Steiner Voigt
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!
12:15 Lunch
Catered lunch including vegetarian options to be provided.
1:00
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.
1:45 Break
2:00
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.
Microbiology IVD Mapping
- Swapna Abhyankar, Mary Zabriskie
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.
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!
3:15 Break
3:30
Submissions for Beginners
- Jamalynne Deckard, Mary Zabriskie
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.
Advanced Search Techniques
- Swapna Abhyankar
With over 84,000 terms in the LOINC database, efficient search techniques are essential for quickly finding the terms you need. In this workshop, we will provide you with numerous tips and tricks to improve your searches and save you time, whether you are using RELMA or search.loinc.org. We will begin with basic search strategies and then move deeper into advanced search techniques that will help you focus your searches and maximize mapping efficiency and accuracy.
Mapping Lab
- John Hook, Steiner Voigt
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!
4:45 Reception
Learn more about this LOINC poster session and fun networking event. Cocktails and light snacks will be provided.