LOINC® at Regenstrief, an international health data standard critical to health information exchange (IMAGE)

Regenstrief Institute

LOINC® at Regenstrief, an international health data standard critical to health information exchange

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LOINC was created in 1994 at Regenstrief Institute to facilitate interoperability in healthcare. There was a growing trend to send clinical data electronically between healthcare entities, a practice that has now become ubiquitous. Today, it contains almost 95,000 terms for everything from a serum alpha 1 antitrypsin level to a zygomatic arch x-ray report. For each concept, LOINC contains many other rich details, such as synonyms, units of measure, and carefully crafted descriptions.

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