2024-11-07 LabMCoP Meeting notes

Date

Nov 7, 2024

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

 

Raj Dash

Duke / CAP

X

John Snyder

National Library of Medicine (SNOMED CT)

 

Andrea Pitkus

UW

 X

Kathy Walsh

Labcorp

 

Rob Hausam

Hausam Consulting

 

Pam Banning

 3M

 

Sandy Jones

CDC

Discussion topics

Upcoming OOO

 

Specimen CMT - review of terms with questions

Yes

Send a reminder for concept map to Shaun - Riki to do this

  • ear wax - review domain - change to molceular

  • Aspirate_Nasal is post-coordinated, while NasalAspirate is pre-coordinated - ideally we would like folks to use prototype + source site, but when a lab supports only a single entry, then

  • Usage is for clinical domain, so for pre and post-coordinated terms the usage should be the same

  • NHSN terms are outdated, so do not import at this time - Riki to check with Sheila on progress to get updated list(s)

  • Nodule could be a specimen for both micro and pathology - will need to write up comments for each domain as to what kind of tests this specimen is submitted for

    • pathology = for histologic evaluation

    • micro = for culture evaluation (bacterial, fungal, mycobacterium)

  • OralSwab - is discouraged has 2 preferred alternatives: Saliva (we have), OralSwab_Buccal - leave as is

  • PapSmear - currently mapped to a collection from 3 sites (confirmed - and same swabbing is also used for GC/Chlamydia testing per Riki’s OB/GYN connection)

    • mapping to Source site will be problematic, as SPM-8 cannot repeat and we cannot get a single term in SCT for these disparate sites

    • for HPV molecular testing will have to follow what the company recommends to collect - may need a different entry here under molecular

Call Adjourned

 

11:58 AM ET

Previous Action Items

 No

Specimen CMT pilot implementers

 No

Specimen CMT - Hosting Options

No

Specimen CMT - education

 No

  •  Need education for providers and IT folks that helps with set up of the EHR-S / LIS configuration

  • if we have a use case of how a patient is impacted on their journey through the healthcare system - CAP created a nice video that showed how patient care was affected by incorrect data SHIELD FDA BAA Year 2

Specimen CMT - tracking implementation impact

  • Setting baseline

  • Define metrics

No

 

Specimen CMT - Compare to NHS Medical Terminology testing

 No

 Will get updated vocab at a later date

LOINC to SNOMED CT mapping

 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

    • Look at other HL7 tables that we would want to migrate SCT (i.e., Specimen Condition table, etc.)

Recording:

Video Conferencing, Web Conferencing, Webinars, Screen Sharing
Passcode: 4xPq!9=r

From Chat:

John Snyder (NLM)  to  Everyone 11:08 AM
Earwax: A potentially useful medium to identify inborn errors of metabolism?

Nancy Cornish  to  Everyone 11:11 AM
Insights into cerumen and application in diagnostics: past, present and future prospective - PMC

Kathy Walsh - Labcorp  to  Everyone 11:12 AM
A laboratory test on ear wax can be a sample of ear wax that is sent to a lab for analysis. This test may be recommended if you have: Ear pain or discomfort, A persistent discharge from your ears, Hearing loss, and A suspected infection.
The sample can be collected using a sterile swab, a sterilized metal scoop, a plastic curette, a wooden spatula, or a Jobson-Horne probe. You can collect a sample at home by gently rotating a sterile swab in your ear canal a few times. However, a health professional is usually better able to collect the sample without damaging your ear or causing an infection.
Ear wax can contain many diagnostic biomarkers, including genetic material, proteins, lipids, and chemical elements. The composition of ear wax can reflect the physiology and pathophysiology of the body, and can even indicate exposure to environmental pollutants.

Nancy Cornish  to  Everyone 11:15 AM
In-depth proteomic analysis of the human cerumen-a potential novel diagnostically relevant biofluid - PubMed

John Snyder (NLM)  to  Everyone 11:27 AM
630941000124109 |Evacuated blood collection tube with spray-dried dipotassium ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid for trace element testing (physical object)|
Tube with K2EDTA (spray-dried) for trace element. Tubes for trace elements are labeled specifically for these purposes on the shelf package and case label. Use only appropriately labeled tubes for these tests.

Amy Liu 11:30 AM
1256100007 |Edetate dipotassium (substance)|

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