2023-03-16 Meeting notes

Nancy Cornish

CDC

Manjula Gama-Ralalage

CDC

Riki Merrick

APHL

Christina Gallegos

APHL

Amy Lui

Inductive Health / APHL

Raj Dash

Duke / CAP

John Snyder

National Library of Medicine (SNOMED CT)

Andrea Pitkus

UW

Kathy Walsh

Labcorp

Rob Hausam

Hausam Consulting

Doug Franklin

APHL

Pam Banning

3M

Upcoming OOO

• Riki 3/21-3/24

• John 3/31-4/6

• Pam 3/31-4/7

• Rob 3/31-4/6

• Nancy 3/30

TRUU-Lab follow up

• Support for educational offerings

• SHIELD involvement

Dr. Sing will provide update on TRUU Lab for CLIAC April 12- update to this presentation from 2018

https://www.cdc.gov/cliac/docs/addenda/cliac0919/13_TRUU-LAB_Singh.pdf

Also present to Clinical Lab Partners Forum - not scheduled yet

SHIELD might put up a Test Naming topic call in May

Some questions from SHIELD:

• Are TRUU Lab calls happening? - the time has changed - need to find out if calls are open

  • Wednesdays

• Also a question on the website?

• Riki/Nancy to Follow up with Dr. Singh on getting this information out there to get added to the calls

Reporting Biomarkers to Cancer registries

Specimen CMT - Progress

• 44 more terms need to be added

• Many terms have not been finalized yet - discouraged, duplicates (with some differences), fields not finalized, 150 terms will need additional work (missing definition, term not decided, etc.) - may need to assign them

• Schema diagrams - John to request access from Riki to search the database to see what attributes are assigned to different concepts

https://app.smartsheet.com/sheets/h6JWqw5v9pwvrqWMq9r4g85CXjv9M8VvVqvHRwc1?view=grid

Specimen CMT - Hosting Options

• JTG Consulting (Jamel Giuma)- would be willing to host the CMT and TRUU Lab

  • Contact info:

    • Email: jamel@jtg.group

    • Direct #: 1-786-598-2540,

    • Mobile: 1-305-301-5074

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

• Onepager: https://aphlinformatics.atlassian.net/wiki/download/attachments/1853947928/20200601_CBR_SCM_OnePager_v04_final_cleared.pdf?api=v2

Specimen CMT - tracking implementation impact

• Setting baseline

• Define metrics

Specimen CMT - Compare to NHS Medical Terminology testing

Specimen CMT - review of terms with questions

Future projects for this call after CMT