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Serge Jonnaert / President, IVD Industry Connectivity ConsortiumEd Heierman, Ph.D. / CTO, IVD Industry Connectivity Consortium In response to the rapidly evolving COVID-19 crisis, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a laboratory data reporting guidance for COVID-19 testing on June…

San Clemente, CA – March 18, 2021 — The IVD Industry Connectivity Consortium today announced the release of LOINC® to Vendor IVD (LIVD) Specification V2.0. LIVD outlines an industry-defined format to facilitate the publication and exchange of LOINC codes for…

2021/01/31 The IVD Industry Connectivity Consortium NFP is collaborating with Deloitte in conducting a pilot for the FDA SHIELD (Systemic Harmonization and Interoperability Enhancement for Laboratories) initiative, which includes an investigation on the use of LIVD by clinical laboratories. IICC…

2020/11/17 The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launch the “COVID-19 At-Anywhere Diagnostics Design-A-Thon”, an initiative to help develop technical innovations to help fight COVID-19. Capturing diagnostic data from COVID-19…

2020/06/07 On June 4, 2020 the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) issued a guideline requiring that all COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) related laboratory testing data be reported using the appropriate LOINC and SNOMED codes, as defined by the IICC’s…

2019/10/15 The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) recently adopted the IIVD Industry Connectivity Consortium’s Laboratory Analytical Workflow (LAW) and LOINC for IVD (LIVD) specifications in its Interoperability Standards Advisory (ISA). The Interoperability Standards Advisory (ISA) process represents the model by…

2019/05/03 This April, the IVD Industry Connectivity Consortium (IICC) celebrated its 10th Anniversary. The event coincided with the official publication of the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute’s AUTO16 (Next-Generation In Vitro Diagnostic Instrument Interface, 1st Edition), the standard for which the IICC…

2019/03/26 The US Food and Drug Administration published a Guidance for Industry and Food and Drug Administration Staff, titled ”Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes for In Vitro Diagnostic Tests” in which it encourages the adoption of the IVD Industry Connectivity…

2019/03/26 The IVD Industry Connectivity Consortium’s LIVD (LOINC to IVD) format for distributing LOINC codes and Laboratory Analytical Workflow (LAW) Profile were featured in the January 2019 issue of Clinical Lab Products:

2018/09/05 by: IVD Industry Connectivity Consortium Chicago, IL – Wednesday, September 5, 2018- The IVD Industry Connectivity Consortium™ (IICC) today announced a new initiative to verify the applicability of its LAW Profile to microbiology. The Laboratory Analytical Workflow Profile (LAW) defines…