2023-03-16 Meeting notes

Date

16 Mar 2023

Attendees

Present	Name	Organization
	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

Discussion topics

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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

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