For updates to this announcement, visit loinc.org/monthly. Dear LOINC Community, For over three decades, LOINC has served as the global cornerstone for health data interoperability because of the dedication, expertise, and feedback of this incredible community. As the pace of clinical innovation accelerates and the demand for real-time data exchange grows, we recognize that our internal processes must also evolve…
We are excited to announce LOINC® Version 2.82, which delivers new and revised content updates and technical enhancements, reflecting continued collaboration with the global health and standards community and ongoing stewardship to advance global interoperability, enhance data exchange, support patient-centered care, strengthen public health and research capabilities, and enable a broad range of clinical and secondary use cases. What’s included…
We are pleased to announce the release of LOINC® version 2.81, now available for download from the LOINC website. This release reflects the growing, collaborative effort of a global community of stakeholders who actively submit content aligned with evolving priorities in clinical care, public health, policy, and research. With more than 4,000 new or updated concepts, version 2.81 includes significant…
Regenstrief Institute and SNOMED International are set to debut the first production release of the LOINC Ontology: A LOINC and SNOMED CT Interoperability Solution. The LOINC Ontology is designed to enhance the ability of health data exchange implementers worldwide to use the two terminologies together. This work is the result of nearly three years of collaboration to coordinate terminology issued…
Version 2.80 Hotfix To correct issues introduced in Version 2.79 and add terms accidentally omitted, a Hotfix labeled Version 2.80 was released in February 2025. All users who have implemented Version 2.79 into their systems are encouraged to upgrade to Version 2.80 as soon as possible. If you have not yet incorporated Version 2.79, you may skip to Version 2.80…
The Health Data Standards (HDS) team within Regenstrief Institute is very proud to announce the release of LOINC version 2.78 This update includes 1,589 new concepts and 1,416 edits to existing LOINCs. For a breakdown by type, a summary of new and updated content, and technical notices, see the LOINC Release Notes within our LOINC Knowledge Base. Get LOINC version…
LOINC version 2.77 is available for download from the LOINC website. We are excited to announce the release of LOINC version 2.77 that includes new and edited concepts in Laboratory, Clinical, and other domains. Through our release we continue the work to promote health information exchange and semantic interoperability that ultimately promotes better care. The version 2.77 content reflects requests…
LOINC® version 2.76 is available for download from the LOINC website and via the LOINC Terminology Service using HL7® FHIR® Data quality and consistency are of utmost importance to LOINC. After version 2.75 was released in August, we were notified by members of the LOINC community about errors in numerous concepts added in that release. We quickly confirmed the issues…
To address errors in a number of concepts, we are preparing a hotfix release of LOINC to be published in mid-September. This update will be given the 2.76 version number. Further details, including a list of affected codes, will be provided once available. Update for Sept. 6, 2023: Upon further review, we have identified approximately 175 concepts in need of…
Important notice: A hotfix update to this release has been published. LOINC® version 2.75 is available for download from the LOINC website and via the LOINC Terminology Service using HL7® FHIR®. We are pleased to announce the release of LOINC version 2.75 that includes new, edited, and newly mapped concepts in Laboratory, Clinical, Survey, and other domains. We are committed…
LOINC version 2.74 is available for download from the LOINC website. We are pleased to announce the release of LOINC version 2.74 that includes new, edited, and newly mapped concepts in Laboratory, Clinical, Survey, and other domains. It features the streamlined file structure adopted since February 2022 release for more efficient download and use. Some highlights include: 608 new concepts…
LOINC version 2.73 is available for download from the LOINC website. Informed by tracking healthcare trends, evaluating concept requests, and listening to guidance from our community, this release contains new, edited, and newly mapped concepts in Laboratory, Clinical, Survey, and other domains. It features the streamlined file structure adopted in the February 2022 release for more efficient download and use….
Enhancements include resource versioning plus translations and alternate names using FHIR designations.
LOINC version 2.72 is available for download from the LOINC website. Informed by tracking health care trends, evaluating concept requests, and listening to guidance from our community, this release contains new and edited concepts in Laboratory, Clinical, Survey and other domains. It also includes a newly streamlined release file structure for more efficient download and use. Some highlights include 1633…
The latest release of LOINC marks the first one on our new schedule and adds 400 new terms and numerous updates. Version 2.71 is now available for free from the LOINC website. Noteworthy changes with this release SCHEDULE: To better align with users’ needs and our internal timelines, LOINC’s twice-yearly release schedule has now shifted to mid-February and mid-August. LOINC…
LOINC version 2.70 is now available for download from the LOINC website.
We are excited to announce that Marjorie Rallins, a nationally recognized leader in standards and informatics, has been named as the new executive director of LOINC®. Dr. Rallins comes from the PCPI® Foundation in Chicago, where she was vice president and chief scientific officer. She started with PCPI when it was a program of the American Medical Association (AMA). Please…
LOINC version 2.69 and RELMA version 7.2 are here! Highlights from this release are described below, and we encourage you to read the individual Release and Readme notes for more details. Remember, the LOINC Release notes contain information about changes to content in the LOINC table, and the file-specific notes included with each artifact (Parts, Groups, etc.) have information related…
A Chinese translator received the 2020 LOINC Award for Distinguished Contributions for his work in fostering adoption of the global health data standard in China. Lin Zhang of Shijiazhuang City, China, has been a key and prodigious translator of LOINC terms, documentation, and other resources into simplified Chinese language. Lin Zhang, award recipient LOINC, developed and housed at Regenstrief Institute, is the world’s most widely used system of codes for identifying medical…
The Joint Initiative Council for Global Health Informatics Standardization (JIC) has published a white paper explaining how its nine health informatics standards development organizations (SDOs) have been working together to help transform the global healthcare system into one that’s digital with the goal of precise and real-time exchange of information based on full interoperability enabled by global standards.