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Date

12 Sep

Attendees

Present

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Organization

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Nancy Cornish

CDC

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Manjula Gama-Ralalage

CDC

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Riki Merrick

APHL

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Christina Gallegos

APHL

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Amy Liu

Inductive Health / APHL

Raj Dash

Duke / CAP

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John Snyder

National Library of Medicine (SNOMED CT)

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Andrea Pitkus

UW

Kathy Walsh

Labcorp

Rob Hausam

Hausam Consulting

 

Doug York

APHL

 

Pam Banning

 3M

 

Sandy Jones

CDC

Discussion topics

Upcoming OOO

 

Speicmen CMT presentation for SHIELD

Presentation on September 10, 2024 went welll - here is the link to the recording: 2024-09-10 SHIELD Topic#2 Call Meeting Notes

HL7 FHIR Profile: Skin and Wound Assessment, Release 1 (For Comment)

Andrea

Background in the Proposal:  Skin and Wound Assessment - FHIR - Confluence (hl7.org)  There was a vendor that created a FHIR App that apparently is used.

While not specific about pathology there was much discussion on how to document "landmarks" on the body like moles, tattoos, etc in relation to wound location.  Conceivably, if a wound culture was performed, the specimen source site info would overlap with wound details.  Pathology specimens would have similar needs.   There are various refsets, value sets and SCT extensions listed.  It was mentioned it should align with laboratory and pathology specimen information, but I haven't reviewed the codes/terms.  Not sure if anything they developed would fill any CMT gaps or already contained therein?   Mitre did a lot of the work on this too.  

Discussion:

Looking at the FHIR IG - will need to review the valuesets for the LOINC components that describe the bodysite, since they removed observation.bodysite = https://loinc.org/39135-9

wounds require good documentation of where the sample was collected

Questions about bite wounds from CSTE

Manjula

Came from CSTE data standardization working group for lab reporting data - described the specimen CMT project in the chat - were discussing use of US edition rather than international edition

Nancy Barret (CT) noticed they got a lot of “junk” in the lab - asked about rules of collecting wound samples

requested presentation about correct way to collect wound samples to the ELR National Working Group - this is an education issue of the clinicians (at minimum need to have the description, ideally it will be propery codified); CMT has guidelines on the collection for wounds, but a behavior chane is what is needed (maybe frame as cost issue / patient safety / outcome issue - increased antibiotic resistance)

should we include specimen CMT info or just share the SHIELD presentation as background?

Biggest issue is that we need to make the CMT available in a usable form

Manjula can present the CMT piece (brief), Riki is usually on that call, so can help, main focus should be around the best specimen collection

HTI-2 rule question

Andrea

Could specimen collection be on the radar for the federal agency that enforces the HIT certification pieces?

this is broader than PH reporting / affects ALL lab tests

also goes into specimen condition / reject reason for quality assessments; include competency testing (for techique that could be re-taught, but time allocation is more problematic)

specimen condition and reject reason work

Here is the confluence page where OO is tracking this project: https://confluence.hl7.org/display/OO/Specimen+Condition+and+Specimen+Reject+Reason+Vocabulary

Next step is to review against the concepts in

#1 Standard PREanalytical Code Version 4.0 - (version 3.0 is here: https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.isber.org/resource/resmgr/isber_2019/pdf/standard_preanalytical_code_.pdf) maybe consider using this (if so, HL7 would need joint copyright or something) and also

#2 international standard for biobanking: the ISO 20387:2018 - is anyone member and has access?

  • Annex A lists some requirements regarding documented information during sample acquisition (see A.2 Acquisition)

  • Annex B gives a list of examples for the respective requirements mentioned in Annex A (see B.2 Acquisition). Based on the acceptance criteria 'reject reasons' can be deduced.

#3 ISBER BP5 for information regarding 'Specimen Reject Reason'

Previous Action Items

 

Specimen CMT - review of terms with questions

 

Specimen CMT pilot implementers

 

Specimen CMT - Hosting Options

 

  • How can we publish the content in the dB?

    • Allow access somehow to query the dB

    • as access or excel or csv

    • Using FHIR conceptMap similar to Conceptmap-example-specimen-type - FHIR v6.0.0-cibuild - based on this profile: ConceptMap - FHIR v6.0.0-cibuild

    • riki.merrick to ask Eric if he still has that or how he built it:

    • ANSWER FROM ERIC:

      • if you look in the xml source Conceptmap-example-specimen-type.xml - FHIR v6.0.0-cibuild . you can see how it is mapped. 

      • I am not sure if you mean the table rendering or creating the concept map from a spreadsheet or CSV file.  The FHIR build tool did the table rendering for that mapping, I think I entered the data by hand, or Grahame did it. It would not be hard to create a script to create a concept map from an excel or csv file if needed.  The table needs to be large enough to make it worthwhile though. you could even create formula cells in the spreadsheet to generate the XML or json for each item. and then copy to a text editor and append to the Metadata fields.

      • Manjula will take a look at the concept map

Specimen CMT - education

 

 

Specimen CMT - tracking implementation impact

  • Setting baseline

  • Define metrics

 

 

Specimen CMT - Compare to NHS Medical Terminology testing

 

 

LOINC to SNOMED CT mapping

 

 

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

    • Look at other HL7 tables that we would want to migrate SCT (i.e., Specimen Condition table, etc.)

From Chat:

Nancy Cornish 11:10 AM
I have just joined, I forgot that we were now starting at 11 am. I can only stay on for about 15 minutes as i have to attend another meeting that i need to attend.

Andrea Pitkus to Everyone 11:13 AM
https://loinc.org/39135-9

Andrea Pitkus to Everyone 11:18 AM
indeed! Here's some of the wound care apps using FHIR: https://www.nethealth.com/wound-care-software-solutions/
https://www.intellicure.com/why-intellicure/workflow-efficiency/
https://imito.io/en/imitowound (looks like this may be Intl)

Andrea Pitkus to Everyone 11:25 AM
you cut out

Andrea Pitkus to Everyone 11:43 AM
improper labeling

Andrea Pitkus to Everyone 11:49 AM
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-42/chapter-IV/subchapter-G/part-493/subpart-K/subject-group-ECFR5f8f0b6639946fd/section-493.1241
Test request, requisition
The patient's chart or medical record may be used as the test requisition or authorization
est requisition solicits the following information:
CMS uses order in their regulations: "may order molecular diagnostic tests when performing diagnostic services from a sample submitted to them without a specific test order"
and also requisition, "Test requisition forms are part of the medical record. When requisition forms include complete information validating medical necessity, such as qualifying clinical information that demonstrate test coverage criteria are met, the requisition form may be sufficient to determine if the service is reasonable and necessary without other medical information from the ordering provider. If the requisition form does NOT contain sufficient and relevant clinical information to determine if the service is reasonable and necessary for the intended patient, the requisition form is NOT considered sufficient to meet reasonable and necessary requirements and additional documentation may be required to fulfil this criteria."

Andrea Pitkus to Everyone 11:55 AM
"evidence in the medical record that there is intent to place an order."
https://www.cms.gov/medicare-coverage-database/view/article.aspx?articleid=59741&ver=2&bc=0

Recording:

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