Good stuff from Regenstrief (as always)!
The LOINC Development Team is very pleased to announce the availability
of a new table of example UCUM codes for use in HL7 and other electronic messages: http://loinc.org/usage/units
This is a draft enumeration of The Unified Code for Units of Measure (UCUM), designed to make it clear what the UCUM syntax would produce for specific unit patterns in electronic communication. This table was compiled by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services with content contributions from Intermountain Healthcare and the Regenstrief Institute. You can read more about how this table was developed in the Preface that is also available from the LOINC website.
We hope you find this new resource helpful. As always, we welcome feedback...just send your comments to: loinc@regenstrief.org
Happing LOINCing!
Daniel J. Vreeman, PT, DPT, MSc
Assistant Research Professor, Indiana University School of Medicine
Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Inc
Thanks a lot for the update. Hoping to get it into Eclipse UOMo UCUM, where visible descriptions may also be localized through the Babel process.
ReplyDeleteIt may also be of interest and relevance to the newly proposed Java Sensor API scheduled for Java 8 and related standards like Type Annotations (JSR-308) which contain special checkers for units of measurement.
Do you know, if GE is member of the Java Community Process?