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Feb
10
A major milestone was recently reached as MedlinePlus.gov launched its 1,000th health topic page about “Eye Care.” Created and maintained by the National Library of Medicine, MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health’s website providing trusted health information to the public. The winner of multiple awards and a consistent top scorer among federal websites, MedlinePlus debuted… Read More »
Posted in: Announcements, Consumer Health, Events, MedlinePlus, MedlinePlus Connect, NLM Resources
May
31
MedlinePlus Connect is a National Library of Medicine (NLM) service linking patient portals and electronic health record systems to context-relevant information from MedlinePlus. The Connect service returns relevant information for a patient’s specific diagnosis, medication, or lab test. In particular, since 2011 Connect has supported requests for lab test information using LOINC (Logical Observation Identifiers… Read More »
Posted in: Consumer Health, Electronic Health Records, MedlinePlus, MedlinePlus Connect
Apr
01
MedlinePlus Connect now supports queries using ICD-10-CM codes. Upon receiving a problem code request with an ICD-10-CM code, MedlinePlus Connect returns relevant, patient-friendly health information from MedlinePlus, Genetics Home Reference, and other reliable health resources. MedlinePlus Connect will continue to support ICD-9-CM and SNOMED CT codes for problem code requests. Learn more on the MedlinePlus… Read More »
Posted in: Consumer Health, Electronic Health Records, MedlinePlus Connect, NLM Resources
Oct
30
The National Library of Medicine has released an enhancement to MedlinePlus Connect, NLM’s service for patient portals and electronic health record (EHR) systems. MedlinePlus Connect makes it easy for EHRs to link to targeted information for patients from MedlinePlus, using their existing coding for diagnoses (problem codes), medications, and laboratory test results. The latest enhancement… Read More »
Posted in: Consumer Health, Electronic Health Records, MedlinePlus Connect, NLM Resources
Oct
22
The National Library of Medicine recently released two enhancements to MedlinePlus Connect. MedlinePlus Connect now returns responses for medication information in Spanish. Also, the MedlinePlus Connect Web service delivers more targeted information when responding to medication information requests. In September 2012, NLM enhanced the MedlinePlus Connect Web service response for medication code requests. Previously, the… Read More »
Posted in: Consumer Health, Electronic Health Records, MedlinePlus Connect, NLM Resources
