Updating To New Versions Of Loinc

KB LOINC Users’ Guide 12 Recommendations for best practices in using and mapping to LOINC Updating To New Versions Of Loinc
Last updated on April 10, 2026 at 4:12 pm EDT

12.6 Updating to new versions of LOINC

LOINC presently releases scheduled updates twice per year, in February and August. At the December 2015 Lab LOINC Committee meeting, Regenstrief and the LOINC Committee approved the following best practice:

We recommend that users update to the current version of LOINC within 90 days of its publication.