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Dana Locke, MLS(ASCP)SM

Director of Clinical Informatics
Dana Locke is the Director of Clinical Informatics at IMO Health. She joined the company in 2022 and leads the clinical team that develops, curates, and maintains clinical terminology content. Dana has 19 years of clinical laboratory science experience, specializing in microbiology. She spent several years at Cerner influencing clinical data standardization and normalization with a heavy emphasis in LOINC®, SNOMED®, HL7, and RxNorm®. In her free time, Dana enjoys traveling, cooking, and spending time with family.
RxNorm® is a registered trademark of the National Library of Medicine. SNOMED and SNOMED CT are registered trademarks of SNOMED International.

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