Regenstrief Institute’s Health Data Standards (HDS) team, in collaboration with SNOMED International, hosted 700 registrants representing 57 countries at the spring stake holder webinar on March 25, 2025.
During the webinar, the HDS team presented the release of LOINC 2.79, which includes more than 3,000 new and edited concepts. Attendees engaged directly with experts from Regenstrief and SNOMED International through both live and pre-submitted Q&A, providing a forum for in-depth discussion of new and updated LOINC concepts.
Participants at the webinar hail from six continents, with North America accounting for approximately 60% of attendees and Europe another 30%. The United States represents nearly half of all registrants, followed by Canada (7%) and Germany (6%).
The webinar also offered attendees a comprehensive overview of the first production release of the LOINC® Ontology: A LOINC and SNOMED CT Interoperability Solution and its role in enhancing semantic interoperability between LOINC and SNOMED CT. In addition to showcasing this major advancement, the session also included:
- A review of the latest LOINC terminology release
- Strategic planning updates from the HDS team
- A briefing on committee and community work
- Highlights of recent accomplishments and current projects by the HDS team
View the webinar here: https://loinc.org/news/free-webinar-to-introduce-the-loinc-ontology-version-1-0/.
About LOINC® from Regenstrief Institute
LOINC® was created in 1994 at Regenstrief Institute to facilitate interoperability in healthcare and is administered by Regenstrief Institute Health Data Standards. There was a growing trend to send clinical data electronically between healthcare entities, a practice that has now become ubiquitous. Today, it contains more than 104,000 concepts for everything from an albumin level to a zygomatic arch X-ray report. For each concept, LOINC contains many other rich details, such as synonyms, units of measure and carefully crafted descriptions.
