LOINC Italy

LOINC ® (Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes) was developed since 1994 by the Regenstrief Institute For Health Care (non-profit medical research organization associated with the University of Indiana) and the LOINC Committee. LOINC’s goal is to allow the electronic movement of clinical data from the laboratories that produce it to hospitals and medical offices. Every single LOINC record has a code that can be used in messages in HL7 and in addition LOINC offers a standard set of names and codes to identify clinical results. The Regenstrief Institute For Health Care has also developed a utility called RELMA (Regenstrief LOINC Mapping Assistant), to facilitate research within the LOINC database. The URT coordinates the spontaneous working group called LOINC ‐ Italy, with the aim of supporting sector operators in mapping the results of analysis laboratories towards the international LOINC code. The activities are carried out within the framework of the CNR-ESF Electronic Infrastructure Technological File project financed by the DIT (Department for Innovation and Technologies). The working group includes:

    – CNR – ITB (Angelo Rossi Mori)
    – CNR URT ‐ DSP (Giuseppe Alfredo Cavarretta)
    – University of Calabria, Department of Linguistics (Roberto Guarasci)
    – For the Piedmont Region (Claudia Bessone, Massimo Mangia)
    – For the Veneto Region the Arsenal Consortium (Claudio Saccavini)
    – For the Trentino Alto Adige Region, APSS Trento (Valter Dapor)
    – For the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region (Carlo Francescutti)
    – Ulss Asolo (Marco Pradella) Some activities are underway such as:

  – Creation of a shared software system for the mapping of the analyzes carried out by each laboratory towards the international LOINC standard and towards regional tariffs, aimed at the Italian translation of the standard as well as sharing the terminology.
    – Operations aimed at the translation into Italian of the compositional terminology of the LOINC from which to generate, for subsequent iterations, the final version of the LOINC in Italian.
– Italian translation of the LOINC and RELMA manuals.
– Creation of a ticket support system for the management of requests for assistance as well as the integration of documentation and FAQs.

CNR ‐ UNICAL working group: Prof. Roberto Guarasci, Giovanna Aracri, Biancaluisa Branca, Maria Teresa Chiaravalloti, Giuseppe Alfredo Cavarretta, Domenico Corchiola, Erika Pasceri.

In collaboration with the Faculty of Pharmacy and Nutrition and Health Sciences – University of Calabria: Prof. Sebastiano Andò, Daniela Bonofiglio, Stefania Catalano, Domenico Sturino.