2023-08-10 Meeting notes

Date

Aug 10, 2023

Attendees

Present	Name	Organization

Present	Name	Organization
X	Nancy Cornish	CDC
X	Manjula Gama-Ralalage	CDC
X	Riki Merrick	APHL
X	Christina Gallegos	APHL
X	Amy Liu	Inductive Health / APHL
X	Raj Dash	Duke / CAP
X	John Snyder	National Library of Medicine (SNOMED CT)
X	Andrea Pitkus	UW
X	Kathy Walsh	Labcorp
X	Rob Hausam	Hausam Consulting
	Doug Franklin	APHL
	Pam Banning	3M

Discussion topics

Topic	Discussed?	Notes

Topic	Discussed?	Notes
Upcoming OOO	Y	John OOO at HL7 WGM 9/10-9/14 Riki & Christina OOO at HL7 WGM 9/8-9/15 Rob at HL7 WGM 9/8-9/15 Raj OOO 9/14-10/5
Previous Action Items	Y	Submitted on the August 3rd -pus swab specimen requested for inactivation with swab and body fluid and pus specimen was requested for inactivation with relation to body fluid Request SNOMED CT to deprecate 119323008 \| Pus specimen (specimen) and 258502009 \| Pus swab (specimen) - we understand Swab, not sure about pus - can we discuss pus can’t be identified by gross examination - it could also be necrosis - you must use microscope to differentiate it pus from abscess in a breast turned out to be necrotic tumor - which couldn’t be identified until looking at the tissue, so it is misleading pus (substance) will still be there recommend to use instead: abscess aspirate drainage fluid - change from do not use to needs collection method by incision (presumed to be sterile) no-incision Created the 2 requests: drafted submission for synonym “anterior nasal cavity swab“ to 697989009^Anterior nares swab - need the pdf, as the link no longer works -COMPLETED - PDF sent to Riki & John, tickets have been submitted to SNOMED International for review requested to deprecate 871810001 and then create a new term, that retains the synonym “Mid-turbinate nasal swab” - this one will be hard, as there is no body structure name for the space (below the inferior turbinate)- submitted and in the review process (possibly need to add another body structure concept) Riki forgot about the submission for Swab from donor bronchus specimen - John needs the reference URLs for these; Nancy is working on that now Modeling exposures on wounds - see when we can have Jim on our call (group with discussion about mid-turbinate swab) - Riki to see when works for him - Ask Riki for contact information for the person from a national marrow donor program- reach out to him for more information on this. Research on donor bronchus is limited. (Bob Milius bmilius@nmdp.org; He is retired so use personal email: bob@milius.com) - Nancy to reach out Joel Schneider - NMDP/CIBMTR - jschneid@nmdp.org (Joel was Bob’s colleague) Need to determine which concepts need to be requested May need to reach out to someone from a national organ donor society - https://unos.org/ Updates on Specimen CMT pilot implementers Review where we are: Vendor Connections - nothing new since last week --no updates COMPLETED: Nancy homework - terms that need definitions: - separate list with definitions sent to Amy bloody liquid stool Bronchial aspirate BodyFluid BronchusDonorSwab PericardialFluid
Reporting Biomarkers to Cancer registries	Y	This is a future topic. Nancy worked with Sandy Jones works for Division of Cancer National Program for Reporting Cancer Registry (NPCR) who would be interested in this. She will be at the CAP’s annual summit in Chicago https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/npcr/index.htm works on synoptic reporting
Lab Test Naming Conventions	Y	SHIELD call topics - planning call is set for Aug 9 from 4-5 PM ET TRUU Lab LOINC Dr. Singh will give a presentation to SHIELD on August 29 discuss naming for physicians vs. laboratories will have follow up calls
Specimen CMT - review of terms with questions	N	STOPPED HERE 8/10 EDTA Stopper top - Riki to look for the table we made (check sharepoint - Anne and Nancy made this) https://phlebotomygeeks.yolasite.com/resources/PRINT OUT COMMON TUBES.pdf but color is manufacturer dependent, whihc is why we named the tubes by the additives there are container types in SNOMED under 706049005 \|Blood tube (physical object)\| Need to check on completeness against the Anne/Nancy list Have a start here: https://aphlinformatics.atlassian.net/wiki/download/attachments/2018312270/ContainertypesListRikiEmailed20171013.xlsx?api=v2 GraftTissue vs graft site updated the definitions for both the way we are modeling is the way we want folks to model in SCT there are 2 terms specimen from graft - example a clot from a graft graft tissue from patient - that’s what we use for the poplieteal graft
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
Specimen CMT - tracking implementation impact Setting baseline Define metrics
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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