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Upcoming OOO

• Riki 5/4 - 5/12

• John 5/17 - 5/25

• Raj week of 5/15

Question from CLSI

Working on a document for proper collection of respiratory specimens for microbiology testing and one of our member shared the coding below with us. https://aphlinformatics.atlassian.net/wiki/download/attachments/1915519082/How-To-Collect-NMT-Specimen-for-COVID-19.pdf?api=v2

She has a number of concerns about the coding, the tests and what we are calling the specimen collection. Here is the link for SNOMED Coding: https://browser.ihtsdotools.org/?perspective=full&conceptId1=181203001&edition=MAIN/2023-03-31&release=&languages=en

Example: Anterior nares (both anterior nares) which makes since sense since both sides should be sampled.

Example: middle turbinate instead of mid-turbinate.

Reporting Biomarkers to Cancer registries

Lab Test Naming Conventions

Andrea planing this

• SHIELD call topic (maybe June 13)

  • TRUU Lab

  • LOINC

Specimen CMT - review of terms with questions

Specimen CMT - Hosting Options

Specimen CMT - education

Specimen CMT - potential pilot sites

• Goal is to have some implementers lined up by April - so who to reach out to?

  • Review where we are: Vendor Connections

Specimen CMT - tracking implementation impact

• Setting baseline

• Define metrics

• Setting baseline

Specimen CMT - Compare to NHS Medical Terminology testing

Future projects for this call after CMT

• In general the call is intended as a forum for ANY messaging related issues to work out.

• In the past we have

  • reviewed containers re-vive that - and how does that interact with devices (UDI identification?)

  • review code systems around additives (HL70371 and SCT substance and product hierarchies)

  • started work on cross-mapping between HL7 method codes and SNOMED CT procedure / technique concepts

    • American College of Surgeons is working on procedure protocol and synoptic data elements / surgical synoptic reports - we could work with them together on that