pCLOCD July 2019 release is now available for download

The pan-Canadian LOINC Observation Code Database (pCLOCD) July 2019 release is now available for download on Terminology Gateway .

Changes to pCLOCD based on the June 2019 International release of LOINC® includes:

782 total records with content edits in either English or French
• 148 content edits, marked as R05.10.00_2.66
• 612 term edits that introduce Tallman lettering for drugs based on recommendations from the Institute for Safe Medication Practices
• 22 records were deprecated this release

Check out pCLOCD release notes for all details and content highlights, including Known Issues for pCLOCD-20190731 Excel file section for some cautionary advice.

Paired with the July 2019 pCLOCD release, we are excited to share our brand new pCLOCD logo! Our ‘LOINC® in Canada’ tag line is telling of how all of you, as a community, have made this standard meet the needs of Canadian implementers.
Be sure to check out the logo while visiting our pCLOCD page that has all you need to know about this standard.

We would like to give special thanks to eHealth New Brunswick and eHealth Saskatchewan, for working closely with us in this release to provide high quality assurance and maintenance of this standard. We value your efforts and thank you very much for your contributions.

Also, thank you to all implementers from across jurisdictions that provided valuable feedback when we investigated the 22 now deprecated LOINC codes in this release, these codes were originally created and intended for Ordering in Canada and causing confusion to mappers Internationally. With your support, we were able to make the decision based on the use of these codes to mark them inactive in pCLOCD. Likewise, we appreciated all of your responses to our pCLOCD survey distributed back in May. We are already working towards significant pCLOCD enhancements and are excited to share further details soon.

In addition, we wish to thank the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) for their continued collaboration on updating the MIS Service Activity Reporting attribute for pCLOCD codes. Further information about service activity, the principles and process used to define this attribute in pCLOCD may be obtained by reviewing the MIS Standards or emailing Cette adresse courriel est protégée contre les robots spammeurs. Vous devez activer le JavaScript pour la visualiser..

We make every effort to carefully consider and review your suggestions and feedback, please continue to send them our way. And if you should have any questions or require more information about this release, please let us know. Feel free to do any or all of the above by sending us an email at: Cette adresse courriel est protégée contre les robots spammeurs. Vous devez activer le JavaScript pour la visualiser..

Keep calm and pCLOCD-on,

Linda Monico
Senior Specialist, Standards & InfoCentral