2023-05-18 Meeting notes

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Nancy Cornish

CDC

X

Manjula Gama-Ralalage

CDC

X

Riki Merrick

APHL

X

Christina Gallegos

APHL

X

Amy Liu

Inductive Health / APHL

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Raj Dash

Duke / CAP

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John Snyder

National Library of Medicine (SNOMED CT)

Andrea Pitkus

UW

X

Kathy Walsh

Labcorp

Rob Hausam

Hausam Consulting

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Doug Franklin

APHL

Pam Banning

3M

Upcoming OOO

Yes

APHL Week 5/22-5/26 - still hold call next week - Christina will run

Question from CLSI

Yes

Riki to submit the requests discussed on 5/11 - still to do

Reporting Biomarkers to Cancer registries

Lab Test Naming Conventions

Andrea planning this

• SHIELD call topic (maybe June 13)

  • TRUU Lab

  • LOINC

Specimen CMT - review of terms with questions

• saliva has duplicate terms

  • description can be different for same PHLIP prefrerred term

  • have separate field for HL70487 codes

  • we don't need to worry muhch about grouper, but grouper can be mulitple in the dB

  • Cannot have 2 different definitions for the same PHLIPprefreered name

  • oral mucosal transudate sems to be differnee from saliva - need to research how this is collected - the link is broken

  • there is a term in SCTso let’s map it to that

  • saliva can be collected a number of different ways

  • have it in micro - this is serology - should we make a serology domain?

    • maybe break it out later - let;'s not deal with it

• Scab

  • different description and grouper - wil add

• nasal fluid

  • use the defintion we have for the bottom one (Nasal Secretion in HL70487

• midturbinate swab

  • FDA follow up - they don't want to deal with it now - CLSI will just complete the document

  • pointed out that there are errors in several COVID EUA package inserts

Specimen CMT - Hosting Options

• How can we publish the content in the dB?

  • Allow access somehow to query the dB

  • as access or excel

  • Using FHIR conceptMap similar to https://build.fhir.org/conceptmap-example-specimen-type.html - based on this profile: https://build.fhir.org/conceptmap.html

  • riki.merrick to ask Eric if he still has that or how he built it:

  • ANSWER FROM ERIC:

    • if you look in the xml source https://build.fhir.org/conceptmap-example-specimen-type.xml.html . you can see how it is mapped. 

    • I am not sure if you mean the table rendering or creating the concept map from a spreadsheet or CSV file.  The FHIR build tool did the table rendering for that mapping, I think I entered the data by hand, or Grahame did it. It would not be hard to create a script to create a concept map from an excel or csv file if needed.  The table needs to be large enough to make it worthwhile though. you could even create formula cells in the spreadsheet to generate the XML or json for each item. and then copy to a text editor and append to the Metadata fields.

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?

  • Review where we are: Vendor Connections - updated some notes there

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