Nancy Cornish

CDC

X

Manjula Gama-Ralalage

CDC

Regrets

Riki Merrick

APHL

Christina Gallegos

APHL

X

Amy Liu

Inductive Health / APHL

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

 X

Pam Banning

3M

Upcoming OOO

• Riki 3/21-3/24

• John 3/31-4/6

• Pam 3/31-4/7

• Rob 3/31-4/6

• Nancy 3/30

Reporting Biomarkers to Cancer registries

Lab Test Naming Conventions

• SHIELD call topic (maybe in May?)

  • TRUU Lab

  • LOINC

Specimen CMT - Progress

https://app.smartsheet.com/sheets/h6JWqw5v9pwvrqWMq9r4g85CXjv9M8VvVqvHRwc1?view=grid

• Andrea reviewing clinician specimen list

  • Many cancer pathology terms are missing from the Specimen CMT

    • May need to add additional terms to CMT or add guidance to existing terms

  • Issues seen:

    • terms with tumor (brain tumor)

    • specific lymph node (lymph node IV)

    • mixing specimen type/specimen source/procedure in one term

    • adding more qualifier values than what is available in pre-coordinated terms

  • Issues more with how clinicians are specifying specimens than how terms are mapped in SNOMED. Having mapping behind the scenes in EHRs should help

Specimen CMT - review of terms with questions

Specimen CMT - Hosting Options

Specimen CMT - education

Specimen CMT - potential pilot sites

• Goal is to have some implementers lined up by April - so who to reach out to?

  • Review where we are: ​https://aphlinformatics.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/LMCOPL/pages/1863942201
    

Specimen CMT - tracking implementation impact

• Setting baseline

• Define metrics

• Setting baseline

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