title: [Names-Lab : a model for the standardization of biology message exchanges].
abstract: The growing requirements of communication between health partners urges to standardize the language used in laboratories data management systems. Names-Lab  is the only semantic reference system allowing to describe synchronously the body of prescription and result messages. Its hierarchical structure allows a simple coding, easily accessible to all biologists without imposing or even requiring a language. Other internationally proposed systems as Loinc  and Euclides  are similar to Names-Lab  in their purposes but are completely different by their content and structure. This prompts the medical and biologic community for a comparison of these tools before setting the choice of an international referencing system.
authors.affiliation: Assistance publique hôpitaux de Paris (DSI), Faculté Pitié-Salpêtrière, Laboratoire de biochimie médicale, 91, bd de l'Hôpital, 75634 Paris cedex 13.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cormont
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Erman
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Burckel
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Carayon
mesh_terms: D002984:Clinical Laboratory Information Systems / Q000592:standards*; D007391:International Cooperation; D012660:Semantics; D009626:Terminology as Topic
vernacular_title: Names-Lab: un modèle de normalisation des messages de biologie.