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2025-03-20 Lab MCoP Meeting Notes

2025-03-20 Lab MCoP Meeting Notes

Date

Mar 20, 2025

Attendees

Present

Name

Organization

Present

Name

Organization

 

Nancy Cornish

CDC

 

Manjula Gama-Ralalage

CDC

X

Riki Merrick

APHL

X

Christina Gallegos

APHL

X

Amy Liu

Inductive Health / APHL

 X

Raj Dash

Duke / CAP

 -

John Snyder

National Library of Medicine (SNOMED CT)

X

Andrea Pitkus

UW

X

Kathy Walsh

Labcorp

 

Rob Hausam

Hausam Consulting

 

Pam Banning

 3M

 

Sandy Jones

CDC

 

 

Carmen Pugh

 

Discussion topics

Upcoming OOO

 

CSTE Presentation

Riki

  • CSTE ELR call presentation on wound cultures and Specimen CMT (modeled for ELR) by Nancy, Riki, and Manjula has been postponed to a TBD date later

European Lab related Vocab

Riki

European Lab Terminology group working on finalizing their list of containers and asking for review - no update

Specimen CMT - review of terms with questions

Christina/Amy

  • Revisit remapping SPM-8 for the woundfluid from ileostoma

    • is the wound on abdominal cavity vs the ileostoma?

      • most common: at juncture of abdominal wall and intestine

      • skin wound

      • intenstinal wound

  • Lymphfluid drainage

    • need to request synonym for lymph fluid sample for 168145009

  • Serum sample

    • decided to use the generic SCT term - in clinical practice the most common would be to have the patient, so will NOT use SCT specific to “from patient”, where available

    • LOINC has the system ^Donor, so we might want to have donor specific

      • serum, ser/pl, marrow, blood, XXX (so that would be the problem)

      • those are probably used to map to the Donor crossmatch testing for example

    • use of SPM-5 to indicate donor or pre-ccordinate terms?

    • Most systems already have a way to track that specimen is from a donor, for example in the patient demographics or by using specific identifiers on the spamples indicating it is from donors

    • also we have ISTB specifications https://www.isbt128.org/_files/ugd/1a7593_ae24b89aa87542039ab473e0afc46891.pdf

    • Bring this up to the SHIELD Standards Working group

    • Ask SNOMED CT for feedback and perspective on history of those terms

  • Clean catch midvoid urine - need to update the FSN to mid-stream urine specimen obtained by clean catch procedure

  • spot urine = Request SCT synonmym for random urine specimen

  • high vaginal swab modeling to point to structure of posterior fornix and update the FSN, keep high swab as a synonym

  • Need new additive terms in SCT:

    • sodium polyanethol sulfonate (under Sodium compound) - for additive

    • Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigen - for additive

    • phytohemagglutinin (use with the Quantiferon test for Mtb) - for additive

    • cellsave formula (product) - will need references - for additive

    • fibrocartilage component of connective tissue (substance)

    • Cell culture medium- for additive

    • Rectouterine pouch fluid (specimen) - have SCT SNOMED International Browser

    • CytoChex (product) - will need references - for additive

    • ClotActivator - will need references - for additive

  • Donor discussions:

Previous Action Items

 

Specimen CMT pilot implementers

 

Specimen CMT - Hosting Options

 

  • How can we publish the content in the dB?

    • Allow access somehow to query the dB

    • as access or excel or csv

    • Using FHIR conceptMap similar to Conceptmap-example-specimen-type - FHIR v6.0.0-cibuild - based on this profile: ConceptMap - FHIR v6.0.0-cibuild

  • How do we decide what format to share this in - get input from EHR-s and LIS vendors.

  • Write letter of mulitple stakeholders to request EHR-s and LIS vendors to implement

    • indicating that this is a patient safety issue, as incorrect Abx treatment will contribute to multi-drug resistance (use CTSI findings to provide background)

      • focus on blood, urine, wound cultures (get data from NHSN, too)

    • Nancy is talking to DHQP about the linkage with specimen collection

    • While we have HIT certification that is for the EHR-s there is currently no enforcement for implementation at the organizations

    • need C-suite buy-in

    • Professional organizations - like CAP and ACOS and AJCC get them to write the synoptic reports (better structuring of data) - for surgical aspects - similar to what CAP has done for Cancer (though they do not have the SCT codes included in the past - may be including SNOMED CT starting in 2025, but they are also using the SCT codes for observables) Synoptic reporting for cancer surgery: Current requirements and future state: The four CoC accreditation standards that include synoptic operative reporting requirements apply to sentinel lymph node biopsy for breast cancer (Standard 5.3), axillary lymph node dissection for breast cancer (Standard 5.4), wide local excision for primary cutaneous melanoma (Standard 5.5), and colonic resection for colon cancer (Standard 5.6). These accreditation standards were developed from the evidence-based recommendations for cancer surgery detailed in the Operative Standards for Cancer Surgery manuals.7,8

    • try to get AMA support to get providers to adopt this

    • Reach out to IDSA, too

Specimen CMT - education

 

  •  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

 

 

Specimen CMT - Compare to NHS Medical Terminology testing

 

 Will get updated vocab at a later date

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

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

Recording:

 Per APHL policy we are not currently allowed to record any meetings

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