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This page was LOCKED for editing AFTER the ALL SHIELD call on February 28th, 2023 - the text content will be copied into 2 pages, one for the charter and one for the Standing Rules prior to Steering Committee Vote on March 7th, 2023.
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This page consists of the Articles that have already been reviewed at least once in a Re-Organization Committee meeting. As each successive Article is reviewed in Committee meetings, it will be added here for further comment. |
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The SHIELD Community is an organization of industry, clinical, academic, patient advocacy, standards development, public/private partnership, and professional organization stakeholders working in partnership with government entities with a singular focus on improving the quality, interoperability, and utility of IVD (In Vitro-Diagnostic) test related data and its adoption across the health care ecosystem.
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Consistent, standards-based identification and description of IVD laboratory test related data and their attributes which contributes to its semantic harmonization
Secure, standards-based description of patient information in a manner that allows effective utilization while protecting patient privacy
Consistent, standards-based interoperability across all applicable information technology systems from the point of order through all downstream uses, both within and between entities in the health care ecosystem
Understandable, reproducible, and useable results for both human and computerized systems
Support universal implementation of the above across all entities within the US health care ecosystem
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