2025-07-31 LabMCoP Meeting Notes
Date
Jul 31, 2025
Attendees
Present | Name | Organization |
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X | Nancy Cornish | CDC |
regrets | Manjula Gama-Ralalage | CDC |
X | Riki Merrick | APHL |
X | Christina Gallegos | APHL |
X | Amy Liu | Inductive Health / APHL |
Raj Dash | Duke / CAP | |
regrets | John Snyder | |
X | Andrea Pitkus | UW |
X | Kathy Walsh | Labcorp |
Rob Hausam | Hausam Consulting | |
Pam Banning | 3M |
Discussion topics
Upcoming OOO |
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Lab tests as procedures or orderables | Definition from SNOMED for these hierarchies:
Colonoscopy example: Reference links: clinical guidelines: Official journal of the American College of Gastroenterology | ACG Quality Indicators: Official journal of the American College of Gastroenterology | ACG Discussion:
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Topic for next call | Nancy | CDC is working with the premier database to evaluate blood cultures - will invite team members to showcase their set up for review | |
Call Adjourned | 12:01 PM EDT | ||
European Semantic work | not discussed | Link to the German FHIR IG around suceptibility testing: | |
Specimen CMT terms review | not discussed | ||
Creating Value Sets for specimen related attributes | not discussed |
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Previous Action Items | not discussed |
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Specimen CMT - Hosting Options | not discussed |
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Specimen CMT pilot implementers | not discussed |
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Specimen CMT - education | not discussed |
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Specimen CMT - tracking implementation impact
| not discussed |
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Specimen CMT - Compare to NHS Medical Terminology testing | not discussed | Will get updated vocab at a later date | |
Future projects for this call after CMT | not discussed |
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Recording:
Did not record
Chat:
none
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