The LOINC Development Team is very pleased to announce the availability of an updated version of the table of example UCUM codes for use in HL7 and other electronic messages: http://loinc.org/usage This update contains corrections to six of the UCUM representations published in Version 1.0. This table was compiled by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of…
The LOINC Development Team is very pleased to announce the availability of a new table of example UCUM codes for use in HL7 and other electronic messages: http://loinc.org/usage This is a draft enumeration of The Unified Code for Units of Measure (UCUM), designed to make it clear what the UCUM syntax would produce for specific unit patterns in electronic communication….
Wow, loinc.org just reached 10,000 users from 140 countries! We just wanted to take the opportunity to say thanks to all of you for helping LOINC continue to grow and improve. With about 10 new accounts each day, the LOINC community is flourishing. It’s real pleasure for us to see LOINC being used in so many different ways, and an…
Current RELMA version released February 17, 2011. New RELMA Features RELMA stores various settings such as the path to the LMOF3.MDB database and the path to the RELMA.MDB database in a file on the user’s machine. These settings have been preserved as RELMA has been upgraded from version 4.0 through version 4.5. However, when RELMA is upgraded from version 4.x…
Current versions of LOINC and RELMA released December 29, 2010. New Features New LOINC Content LOINC version 2.34 contains 61,255 terms, an increase of 2288 since the June 2010 version. Approximately 695 terms have been edited. A total of 1,704 terms have been deprecated. Highlights included in this release are the PROMIS survey, additional PhenX terms, cephalometrics terms, and a detailed cytogenetics testing template….
Regenstrief is pleased to announce the launch of a new web application for searching LOINC! The LOINC team at Regenstrief is proud to announce the launch of a new web application that is now available for searching LOINC at: http://loinc.org/websearch We’ve taken some of the best features from the RELMA simple search screen and implemented them in new web application that you…
As the practice, regulation and reimbursement of health care become more complicated, and as the demand for electronic medical records and health information exchange grows, a universal method of identifying test results and other clinical measurement is essential. INDIANAPOLIS — As the practice, regulation and reimbursement of health care become more complicated, and as the demand for electronic medical records…