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Date

Attendees

Present

Name

Organization

X

Nancy Cornish

CDC

X

Manjula Gama-Ralalage

CDC

X

Riki Merrick

APHL

X

Christina Gallegos

APHL

-

Amy Liu

Inductive Health / APHL

-

Raj Dash

Duke / CAP

X

John Snyder

National Library of Medicine (SNOMED CT)

Andrea Pitkus

UW

X

Kathy Walsh

Labcorp

Rob Hausam

Hausam Consulting

Doug Franklin

APHL

Pam Banning

3M

Discussion topics

Topic

Discussed?

Notes

Upcoming OOO

Yes

  • Riki 5/4 - 5/12 - what about the call on 5/4 and 5/11 - leave on the books - Christina to run and record

  • John 5/17 - 5/25

  • Raj week of 5/15

Question from CLSI

Yes

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; https://aphlinformatics.atlassian.net/wiki/download/attachments/1915519082/NMT-Specimen-Collection-Infographic.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 sense since both sides should be sampled. - add synonym for anterior nasal cavity swab

Example: middle turbinate instead of mid-turbinate - it is modeled to point to the middle turbinate - we need to update that to be a new term for the mid-section (on the anterior/posterior axis) of the cavity between hard palate and the inferior turbinate structure - it goes to the middle of it| Swab specmen from nasal mid-turbinate

We also have description for NP Swab (along the top of the ):

Anterior nose swab (squamous epithelial vs respiratory epithelial (which is what is getting infected): https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/testing/How-To-Collect-Anterior-Nasal-Specimen-for-COVID-19.pdf

add synonym for anterior nasal cavity swab)So we ned to update the modeling

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

  • Cystic nodule vs nodule

    • SNOMED has these concepts in morphologic abnormality hierarchy

      • 367643001 |Cyst (morphologic abnormality

      • 27925004 |Nodule (morphologic abnormality)| with a subtype

        • 16217341000119101 |Cystic nodule (morphologic abnormality)

      • Cysts are always fluid filled, so can aspirate also fluid AND wall tissue

      • Nodule is always a mass = tissue only

      • when it is a cystic mass, it may contain fluid

        • so might need to add 367643001 |Cyst (morphologic abnormality as a parent to 16217341000119101 |Cystic nodule (morphologic abnormality)

    • bring this up next week to see how/if that affects the CMT

Specimen CMT - Hosting Options

Specimen CMT - education

No

 

Specimen CMT - potential pilot sites

Yes

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

Specimen CMT - tracking implementation impact

  • Setting baseline

  • Define metrics

No

  • Setting baseline

Specimen CMT - Compare to NHS Medical Terminology testing

No

 

Future projects for this call after CMT

No

  • 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

FROM CHAT:

last week we added a domain of chemistry because we had a chemistry test listed under microbiology. Do we want to continue to work on chemistry terms now or later?

 

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