Stream: terminology
Topic: Safety & LOINC for inter-organizational interoperability?
Bob Milius (Aug 19 2021 at 18:54):
I recently came across this Lancet paper
Use of LOINC for interoperability between organisations poses a risk to safety
which was a response to this paper:
Effective coding is key to the development and use of the WHO Essential Diagnostics List
The original authors replied with
Use of LOINC for interoperability between organisations poses a risk to safety - Authors' reply
So, what do you think? Does the use of LOINC between organizations pose a risk to safety?
Grahame Grieve (Aug 19 2021 at 20:06):
any communication between organizations poses a risk to safety. If it's not done right.
Peter Jordan (Aug 19 2021 at 22:21):
Absolutely and free text is obviously more risky that structured, coded data. From a communications (and implementer) viewpoint, the authors themselves fail to make a clear distinction between the coding of the observation type and the result(s) of that observation.
Bob Milius (Aug 24 2021 at 13:36):
The point of the paper is that LOINC in particular poses a greater risk to safety when used for interoperability between organizations -- greater risk than other standards such as SNOMED and ICD-10. I don't think I agree with this, and until there's a good publicly available alternative it's what we have.
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