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Last chance! Join us for a LOINC Listening Session at the AMIA Clinical Informatics Conference in Anaheim on May 20. Share your thoughts on LOINC's education resources and get free gifts. Show your interest at https://loinc.org/listen/

Join a LOINC listening session at the AMIA Clinical Informatics Conference in Anaheim, CA on May 20! We want your thoughts on LOINC educational resources and opportunities. As a token of our appreciation, all participants will receive:  - A special gift - A chance to win exclusive prizes - Free refreshments Indicate your interest at https://loinc.org/listen before May 12.

As the #healthcare industry continues to explore the transformative potential of large language models (#LLMs), one area that remains critical yet underleveraged is the role of #standardized #ontologies such as SNOMED International, LOINC, and #RxNorm. While #LLM excel at parsing unstructured clinical narratives, they often generate outputs with high variability—making #interoperability and reproducibility a challenge. That’s where standardized medical ontologies come in. By applying these coding systems as a normalization layer on top of LLM-generated outputs, we can enhance semantic consistency, data reliability, and #EHR integration. These ontologies can help bridge the gap between free text and structured data—unlocking the full potential of LLMs in clinical decision support, population health, and quality reporting. Of course, these ontologies are not without limitations—but their foundational role in standardizing terminology and reducing downstream ambiguity cannot be overstated. SNOMED CT and other standards offer a roadmap toward safer, more interoperable #AI in healthcare. #Healthinformatics #ClinicalInformatics #dataanalytics #Data

Are you attending the AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association) Clinical Informatics Conference in Anaheim, CA? Members of Regenstrief Institute, Inc. will be there on May 20 to host listening sessions regarding LOINC's educational resources and opportunities. We'd love for you to participate. Apply at https://loinc.org/listen/ before May 12.

Did you miss our recent webinar introducing Version 1.0 of the LOINC Ontology? Don't worry, we DVR-ed it for you! You can now watch the recording at your convenience. Representatives from Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and SNOMED International explain the purpose and technical details of this first production release of the LOINC Ontology: A #LOINC and #SNOMEDCT #Interoperability Solution. https://lnkd.in/eqvnBh2h Marjorie Cowan Rallins Stanley Huff Jim Case Eza Hafeza Peter Groves Williams Steven Wagers Farzaneh Ashrafi Suzanne Santamaria Kelly Kuru

Version 1.0 of the LOINC Ontology, a LOINC and SNOMED CT Interoperability Solution, is now available! Browse and download at https://loincsnomed.org/. Don't forget to attend Tuesday's webinar to discuss the release. Sign up at https://lnkd.in/geRzHc-X #healthdata #standards #interoperability SNOMED International

Our Annual Public Health Informatics Conference at Regenstrief I'm excited as it is just one month before our annual #publichealth #informatics conference! This year we examine how #datamodernization and #interoperability can support health equity. We will have presentations from Indiana-based health systems, Eskenazi Health and Indiana University Health, as well as the LOINC and Health Data #Standards team at Regenstrief Institute, Inc. present on work they are doing in the community and around the globe to facilitate more equitable and high-quality care. We will also hear from the CDC Foundation on national efforts to modernize public health data. Our event is FREE, and we will host the conference at our headquarters as well as online. The event is open to all. Details and registration can be found here: https://lnkd.in/gNRdQdhd

Calling all early birds! You can now register for the 2025 LOINC Conference in Montreal and Online on October 7-10. We will have program specifics later this spring. https://lnkd.in/gytwzyUj

We are happy to let you know our most recent podcast is now out! Focused on the development and release of the LOINC Ontology, an extension of #SNOMEDCT for the soon-to-be released #LOINC terminology, the podcast features SNOMED International's Kelly Kuru and LOINC's Marjorie Cowan Rallins, who discuss the years of collaboration between the two organizations leading up to the development of the Ontology, the challenges posed and overcome during the process and the mutual benefits and positive impact it is expected to have on the global healthcare community. To listen, click on this link https://lnkd.in/g4Ys4Sxe or search for Coded Conversations on your referred podcast platform! Also, stay tuned for more information on the release of the Ontology and an upcoming informational webinar.

If you're not already familiar with the Healthcare Interoperability podcast by Diego Kaminkerand W. Ed Hammond, PhD, I highly recommend it. It covers a wide range of topics from health interoperability leaders across the globe. The latest episode with Daniel Vreeman, the Chief Standards Development Officer at HL7 International, is a great place to start to learn where HL7 is headed, a short history of LOINC, and more. https://lnkd.in/eNj6BU6q