LOINC Conference Fall 2018 Clinical

Dec. 5-6, 2018 Regenstrief Institute Indianapolis

Workshop & Presentation Schedule

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2018

Session recordings and slide downloads are only available to attendees of this LOINC Conference

8:30

Registration

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

9:00

Plenary

Welcome to LOINC

  • Daniel Vreeman, PT, DPT, MS
    Regenstrief Institute

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

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LOINC for Beginners

  • Jami Deckard, MS
    Regenstrief Insitute

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, MD
    Regenstrief Institute

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.

10:45

Break

Refreshments will be available on the first floor.

11:00

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RELMA Part 1

  • Daniel Vreeman, PT, DPT, MS
    Regenstrief Institute

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

  • Jami Deckard, MS
    Regenstrief Institute

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.

12:15

Lunch

Catered lunch including vegetarian options to be provided on the first floor.

1:00

Plenary

Enhancing Laboratory Data for Research and Clinical Use

  • John Snyder, NDTR, RDN
    Diameter Health

Clinical data disorder is extremely wide spread through our healthcare system. As laboratory data is transmitted from the Laboratory Information System (LIS) to the Electronic Health Record (EHR) and then on to a Health Information Exchange (HIE), the data loses semantic meaning, may be duplicated, and results become more divergent. John will take a look at the most commonly identified data disorders at the HIE level and some of the steps that are being taken to clean and organize laboratory data for more logical clinical review.

1:45

Break

Refreshments will be available on the first floor.

2:00

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RELMA Part 2

  • Daniel Vreeman, PT, DPT, MS
    Regenstrief Institute

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.

ProMaps: Problem Concepts Maps; The Use of LOINC for Mitigation of Cognitive Load

  • Joel Buchanan, MD
    UW Health at the University of Wisconsin

Excess cognitive load is an unintended consequence of Electronic Health Records and is a significant contributor to physician burnout. Cognitive load can be mitigated by providing automatic data summaries in a single screen. These automatic data summaries can be created with the Problem Oriented View, which is displayed on-the-fly using Problem Concept Maps (Promaps). We have successfully built these Problem Concept Maps using LOINC codes for lab tests and RxNorm Codes for medications. In the workshop we will explain how ProMaps are built using a Modified Delphi technique on Google Drive to generate consensus among specialists at six academic medical centers.

3:15

Break

Refreshments will be available on the first floor.

3:30

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Successful LOINC Mapping Tactics

  • Pamela Banning, MLS(ASCP)cm, PMP®
    3M Health Information Systems

Pam provides the tactics to shine in your terminology project! From pre-analytical to post-analytical with everything in between, you will leave this workshop knowing "You Got This!"

Tactics developed over 25 years, across multiple environments and laboratory systems. Content useful for novice to intermediate LOINC students.

Categorizing lab results from Epic using LOINC codes for cancer informatics

  • Dana Milne, PhD
    Eva Lepisto, MSC, MS
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

In cancer informatics, we need a way to link and group real-world Epic lab data results to help our customers in research, operations, and analytics understand patient treatment outcomes and cancer progression.

Milne and team provides Epic data for research projects, research applications, operations, and business analytics at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. LOINC codes are building blocks that help us categorize lab results into groups to indicate adverse events or cancer progression.

4:45

End

This concludes the day's workshops and presentations.

5:00 - 7:00

LOINC Show & Tell Reception

Learn more about this special showcase celebrating the LOINC community and its many contributions. Cocktails and light snacks will be provided.

All conference attendees are welcome at this event!