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LOINC is the world's most widely used terminology standard for health measurements, observations, and documents. LOINC helps make health data more portable and understandable to different computer sys...
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What LOINC is – LOINC
What LOINC is
LOINC is a common language (set of identifiers, names, and codes) for identifying health measurements, observations, and documents. If you think of an observation as a "question" and the...
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About LOINC – LOINC
Origins of LOINC
LOINC, which stands for Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes, was initiated in 1994 by Clem McDonald, then an investigator at Regenstrief Institute, a non-profit medical re...
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LOINC Term Basics – LOINC
LOINC Names
LOINC creates several different text labels (names) to represent each concept. We call the six-part formal name, as described above, the
Fully-Specified Name (FSN). We also create a more ...