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Should You Be Using LOINC?

October 23, 2015 John Snyder

The more I work with terminologies, the more I find that the question is not, "Should we use Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes, or LOINC?" but, "How can we use them effectively?" If your electronic health record is like mine,

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Meet “The Feed” at FNCE 2015

September 25, 2015 Sharon Solomon

The start of October signals the true beginning of all things fall: pumpkin spice, turning leaves, football and FNCE®. I have not attended the Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo™ — the annual meeting of the Academy

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Meeting the Standards with Standardization

September 18, 2015 Sharon Solomon

As director of the customer experience for a hospital system in New York City, informatics is key to my mission of improving satisfaction through training and implementing standardization. I have led a multiyear project that

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Informatics Is a Skill to Take with You

September 10, 2015 Simon Sum

I have been a RDN for almost eight years and I've found that, no matter where I go, technology and informatics are changing the way we do everything. In 2011, I worked in clinical dietetics

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Welcome to The Feed

July 21, 2015 Sarah Rusnak

Dietitians are all about food, from farm to fork and every detail in between. Feeding people is a top priority for all of us, but "feed" can mean supplying more than just calories and nutrients.

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Education and Nutrition Informatics

April 25, 2015 Peggy Turner

My experience with nutrition informatics began after I graduated from school and started working in a hospital. All the pharmacists were using handheld devices called personal digital assistants, or PDAs, to access drug information. At

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Research … with a Side Order of Informatics!

August 27, 2014 Sarah Rusnak

As with all areas of medicine, nutrition practice relies on evidence generated from research studies. For the latest guidelines and research summaries, check out the recently renovated Evidence Analysis Library of the Healthy Nutrition Academy.

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No EHR for You!

August 8, 2014 Lindsey Hoggle

The spectrum of nutrition implementation in Electronic Health Records (EHR) is both vast and highly inconsistent. A member recently reported that, as a private practice RDN, the physician's office she worked for did not want her to

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New Nutrition Content in Health IT Standards

August 8, 2014 Lindsey Hoggle

The adoption of electronic health records (EHR) in the U.S. is proceeding at an unprecedented pace — primarily due to the HITECH Act. As I have mentioned previously, the Academy has participated in the activities driven by