2024-11-07 LabMCoP Meeting notes
Date
Nov 7, 2024
Attendees
Present | Name | Organization |
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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 |
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Specimen CMT - review of terms with questions | Yes | Send a reminder for concept map to Shaun - Riki to do this
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Call Adjourned |
| 11:58 AM ET |
Previous Action Items | No |
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Specimen CMT pilot implementers | No |
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Specimen CMT - Hosting Options | No |
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Specimen CMT - education | No |
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Specimen CMT - tracking implementation impact
| No |
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Specimen CMT - Compare to NHS Medical Terminology testing | No | Will get updated vocab at a later date |
LOINC to SNOMED CT mapping | No |
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Future projects for this call after CMT | No |
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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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