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<h1 class="articleH1">Enhancement to MedlinePlus Connect Lab Test Responses</h1>
<p class="tbyearmonth">Robison R. Enhancement to MedlinePlus Connect Lab Test Responses. NLM Tech Bull. 2016 May-Jun;(410):e7. </p>
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<a href="https://medlineplus.gov/connect">MedlinePlus Connect</a> 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 patients specific diagnosis, medication, or lab test. In particular, since 2011 Connect has <a href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj11/mj11_mplus_connect.html">supported requests for lab test information</a> using LOINC (Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes).
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In April 2016, NLM released an enhancement to the responses to lab test queries. The response now names the source of the information and provides a short snippet of the content in addition to the hyperlinked title of the content page.
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This contextual information was added to help end-users understand the differences between multiple links which will be useful as NLM expands its collection of lab test content. For example, responses will now include links to MedlinePlus <a href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/healthtopics.html">health topics</a> that are focused on lab tests.
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The new format for the MedlinePlus Connect Web application includes the snippet (see A in <a href="#fig1">Figure 1</a>) and the source (see B in <a href="#fig1">Figure 1</a>). For the Web service, the response now includes the summary element (see A in <a href="#fig1">Figure 2</a>) and the author/name element (see B in <a href="#fig1">Figure 2</a>). These elements are already used in the responses to diagnosis and medication codes.
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<img src="/pubs/techbull/mj16/graphics/medlineplus_connect_fig1a.png" alt=" New LOINC response on MedlinePlus Connect" title=" New LOINC response on MedlinePlus Connect" /><br />
<strong>Figure 1: New LOINC response as it appears in the MedlinePlus Connect Web application.</strong></div>
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<img src="/pubs/techbull/mj16/graphics/medlineplus_connect_fig2.png" alt=" New LOINC response on MedlinePlus Connect" title=" New LOINC response on MedlinePlus Connect" /><br />
<strong>Figure 2: New LOINC response as it appears in the MedlinePlus Connect Web service.</strong></div>
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Your questions and comments about MedlinePlus Connect are welcome. Please send them to <a href="//support.nlm.nih.gov/?style=classic&amp;deptID=28054&amp;from=https://www.nlm.nih.gov/">NLM Customer Service</a>. To receive updates about MedlinePlus Connect, please join the <a href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/connect/emaillist.html">email list</a>.
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