2023-09-19 SHIELD Steering Committee Meeting Notes

Stakeholder group

SHIELD organization

Name of SHIELD member

organization designation

Industry Entity

Labgnostic, Inc.

Aaron Green

primary

alternate

Epic

Dan Rutz

primary

alternate

Biomerieux

Xavier Gansel -

primary

alternate

Roche

Nick Decker - regrets

primary

Roche

 Yue Jin - regrets

alternate

Healthcare Provider

Indiana University/Indiana University Health/Association for Molecular Pathology

Mehdi Nassiri, MD

primary

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Andrea Pitkus, PhD, MLS(ASCP)CM, FAMIA

primary

UT Southwestern Medical Center

Hung Luu

primary

UNMC

Scott Campbell

primary

Tufts Medical Center

Nanguneri Nirmala

primary

Sonic Healthcare

Eric Crugnale - regrets

primary

Former Quest Diagnostics

Collom, Craig D

primary

Standards Organization

SNOMED International

James T. Case

primary

Monica Harry

alternate

Regenstrief Institute

Marjorie Rallins - regrets

primary

Eza Hafeza

alternate

HL7

Julia Skapik

primary

alternate

Professional Organization

Association of Public Health Laboratories

Riki Merrick

primary

 Dari Shirazi

alternate

Graphite Health

Stan Huff

primary

alternate

CAP

Raj Dash

primary

alternate

AMP

Robyn Temple

primary

alternate

Governmental - non Voting

CMS

Serafina Brea

primary

alternate

ONC

Sara Armson

primary

alternate

CDC

Hubert Vesper (/DDNID/NCEH/DLS)

primary

Jasmine Chaitram - regrets

alternate

NLM

 John Snyder

primary

alternate

FDA

primary

alternate

Quorum evaluation (two-thirds (2/3) of the Voting Representatives shall be necessary to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business)

Currently we have 18 named members, so 2/3 = 12 (excluding chair and government members).

Open Meeting

LOINC Conference presentation

• Review the slides for SHIELD presentation by Andrea Pitkus, Riki Merrick

SNOMED Conference

• Review the onepager that CDC will have at their booth

• 

Updates

• Proposed new members for the SC - when do we want to vote on these?

  • Patient Advocate position:

    • Stacy Lange has been in patient advocacy for over 10 years (we talked about her last call)

  • FDA representative coming soon

European Outreach

• Update on NHS connection effort

• Others?

Review Working Groups progress

• Laboratory Interoperability Data Repository (LIDR) Working Group

• Real World Evidence Working Group

• Standards Updates and Vocabulary Working Group

• Communications and Branding Working Group

Roadmap section updates in response to ONC comments on the SHIELD roadmap

We will talk about approach to updates in general and these specific comments in particular related to the ONC comments

Next call

October 10, 2023 12-1 PM ET

Adjourned