2023-04-27 LabMCoP Meeting notes

Date

27 Apr 2023

Attendees

Present	Name	Organization
	Nancy Cornish	CDC
	Manjula Gama-Ralalage	CDC
	Riki Merrick	APHL
	Christina Gallegos	APHL
	Amy Liu	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

Topic	Discussed?	Notes
Upcoming OOO		Riki 5/4 - 5/12 - what about the call on 5/4 and 5/11? John 5/17 - 5/25 Raj week of 5/15
Question from CLSI		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 since sense since both sides should be sampled. Example: middle turbinate instead of mid-turbinate.
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
Specimen CMT - Hosting Options
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
Specimen CMT - tracking implementation impact Setting baseline Define metrics		Setting baseline
Specimen CMT - Compare to NHS Medical Terminology testing
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

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