Indiana University/Indiana University Health/Association for Molecular Pathology
Steering Committee member
Eza Hafeza
Regenstrief
Steering Committee member
Jim Case
Snomed International
Steering Committee member
Mary Kennedy
CAP
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Identify tangible activities for this working group
What role does standards play and what gaps are we looking to close? What are the known limitations and/or areas that standards cannot address currently?
Span of tests: for chemistry, microbiology, etc. order and result (LOINC), AOE question (LOINC), specimen type, specimen source and/or body site (SCT), specimen collection method (SCT).
How the test was performed, describe the result → interoperability gaps exist today even with standards in place today
Limitation: no agreement on coding HL7 value sets & specimens with the standards
How to address issue of free text vs discrete data capture vs discrete coded data capture?
In SCT, the specimen hierarchy is suboptimal. HL7 specimen domain analysis model has been mapped to SCT with some improvements suggested.
For cancer, does not follow editorial guidelines and has not been well-maintained. Proximal primitive parenting has not been widely applied.
Example: for “how is tissue removed?” Is biopsy considered an excision? (in a machine classifiable model this is not computable).
Missing content.
Do we need to establish concrete use cases of these challenges?
Share challenges and gaps with SCT to propose a quality improvement effort.
Define interoperability challenges and create prototypes / pilots that works in the real world and demonstrate value of going to the effort?
Lab systems don't have to store the exchange standards, but their local values stored need to be structured so they can be mapped to the national terminology standards. Many laboratory systems store their local data in a free-form text fields for specimen source and specimen type.
EHRs today don’t make best use of standards today (e.g. using UCUM to normalize units).
There is no place in information models that standardizes how laboratory device information is stored and transmitted.
Is there a standard for laboratory device nomenclature?
LOINC describes methods but not specific devices
LIVD assigns LOINC codes for in vitro devices (industry defined format to facilitate publication and exchange of LOINC codes for IVD test results)
How to include UDIs (CLSI AUTO-16 / LAW discussion today)?
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