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A Friendly Tour Through the Strange, Sprawling World of Medical Vocabularies If you've ever wondered why getting a simple lab result from one hospital to another feels harder than it should, the answe
A Friendly Introduction to the Meta-Vocabulary That Connects Them All If you've been following this series, you've noticed that every single post — SNOMED, CPT, ICD, LOINC, RxNorm — has mentioned the
A Friendly Introduction to the Vocabulary That Normalizes Medications If you've ever wondered how an EHR knows that "Advil 200 mg," "ibuprofen 200 mg," and "Motrin IB 200 mg" are all basically the sam
A Friendly Introduction to the Universal Language of Lab Results If you've ever looked at a lab report and seen something like 4548-4 next to "Hemoglobin A1c," that's a LOINC code. It might look like
A Friendly Introduction to the World's Oldest Living Medical Vocabulary If there's one medical code you've probably seen on a bill, an insurance form, or a doctor's note, it's an ICD code. Something l
A Friendly Introduction to the Code Set That Runs U.S. Outpatient Healthcare If you've ever received a medical bill, an Explanation of Benefits, or a superbill from your doctor, you've seen CPT codes
A Friendly Introduction to Healthcare's Most Comprehensive Clinical Vocabulary If you've spent any time around electronic health records, clinical research, or healthcare interoperability, you've prob
