March 2019—An interesting medical informatics moment occurred post-9/11 with the delivery of anthrax-poisoned letters to several congressional and news media offices. “There was not a single anthrax test order communicated to the CDC electronically,” says Steven H. Hinrichs, MD.
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Standard provides labs with predefined LOINC codes for IVD tests
February 2019—Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes, or LOINC, is a universal code system for identifying laboratory and clinical observations. LOINC provides unique numeric codes that identify the type of in vitro diagnostic test with defined attributes including component, property, time, system, scale, and method.
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