LOINC Insights

What is LOINC?

LOINC, which stands for Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes, is a universal standard for identifying health measurements, observations, and documents. It provides a set of codes to uniquely identify laboratory and clinical observations, making it easier to share and aggregate data across different healthcare systems and laboratories. LOINC codes are commonly used in electronic health records (EHRs), laboratory information systems (LIS), and other healthcare information systems to standardize the representation of clinical data, thus improving interoperability and data analysis.

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What other technologies are related to LOINC?

LOINC Complementary Technologies

SNOMED

SNOMED provides clinical terminology that can be linked to LOINC codes for a more comprehensive representation of clinical data.

mentioned alongside LOINC in 60% (1.1k) of relevant job posts

RxNorm

RxNorm standardizes names for clinical drugs and links its names to many drug vocabularies commonly used in pharmacy management and drug interaction software, including those of First Databank, Micromedex, and Gold Standard. LOINC is often used alongside RxNorm when capturing medication-related information.

mentioned alongside LOINC in 80% (642) of relevant job posts

SNOMED CT

SNOMED CT is the formalized name of SNOMED. It provides clinical terminology that can be linked to LOINC codes for a more comprehensive representation of clinical data.

mentioned alongside LOINC in 48% (608) of relevant job posts