2023-05-25 LabMCoP Meeting notes

Date

May 25, 2023

Attendees

Present

Name

Organization

Present

Name

Organization

X

Nancy Cornish

CDC

X

Manjula Gama-Ralalage

CDC

-

Riki Merrick

APHL

X

Christina Gallegos

APHL

X

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

X

Pam Banning

3M

Discussion topics

Topic

Discussed?

Notes

 

Topic

Discussed?

Notes

 

Upcoming OOO

Yes

Nancy: 6/8, 6/15, 6/29

 

Previous Action Items

Yes

  • Link at the bottom of meeting notes

  • Nancy to Follow up with Dr. Singh on getting the TRUU LAB call information out there to get added to the calls

    • Ask Riki about this and TRUU Lab Meeting (planned for sometime in June - not scheduled yet)

  • @Nancy Cornish: Report on review of the specimen attributes in the Medical Microbiology Testing in Primary Care Struthers et al. United Kingdom and NHS Manson publishing - (we wanted SNOMED to host this and we were concerned that they were international – would it apply)

    • Nancy - UK is standardized so SNOMED coding would work there and maybe Canada

    • Nancy to read the book for each submission to see if their Specimen CMT would be comparable (likely), but need more work to determine

  • @Nancy Cornish: Update on CDC train connection and what is needed for topic outline - for both specimen and general lab medicine education (TRUU-Lab)

  • Need to discuss action items on the next call:

  • SNOMED request for Mid-turbinate

    • Riki to submit the requests discussed on 5/11 - still to do -- had to request a new CRS account – not available before leaving for APHL week

    • There was push back from FDA – will need to discuss this with FDA

    • Raj to reach out to CAP to get contacts at vendors that we don’t have contact for - see here: Vendor Connections

    • Andrea will see, if she can use the Specimen CMT content in their cancer project and report back

 

Question from CLSI

Yes

  • Nancy - Just Published: CLSI AUTO17-Ed1 AUTO17 provides guidance on achieving semantic interoperability for IVD test results.

  • SNOMED requst for Mid-turbinate specimen (see action items)

    • Nancy did research on adverse events of mid-turbinate swabs:

      • Fractured mid turbinate

      • CSF leak

      • 50% of mid turbinate specimens were incorrectly performed (study done by ENT)

    • SNOMED codes need to be updated and everyone should follow CDC guidelines

 

Reporting Biomarkers to Cancer registries

 No

 

 

Lab Test Naming Conventions

 No

Andrea planning this

  • SHIELD call topic (maybe June 13)

    • TRUU Lab

    • LOINC

 

Specimen CMT - review of terms with questions

 Yes

  • Skin biopsy

    • Selected term with where SPM 8 (source site), SPM 7 (collection method), and SPM 9 (spatial orientation) are required

  • Specimen

    • issue - multiple descriptions

      • We can add multiple codes to same HL7 table to same PHLIP pref term

    • Amy to test this out to see if it comes across

 

Specimen CMT - Hosting Options

 

 

Specimen CMT - education

No

 

 

Specimen CMT - potential pilot sites

No

 

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

 

Recording:

 

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