2025-12-04 LabMCoP Meeting Notes
Date
Dec 4, 2025
Attendees
Present | Name | Organization |
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X | Nancy Cornish | CDC |
X | Manjula Dharmawardhana | CDC |
X | Riki Merrick | APHL |
X | Christina Gallegos | APHL |
X | Amy Liu | Inductive Health / APHL |
- | Raj Dash | Duke / CAP |
X | John Snyder | Pragmatic Terminologies, LLC |
- | Andrea Pitkus | UW |
X | Kathy Walsh | Labcorp |
Rob Hausam | Hausam Consulting | |
Pam Banning | 3M |
Discussion topics
Upcoming OOO |
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Follow up items |
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Specimen CMT terms review | Christina | no updates |
Lab tests as procedures or orderables | For orderables - check with Eza / Stan about the new orderables they created - assume in the procedure hierarchy? would that also be for LOINCs that are both? - example of the new codes: https://loinc.org/111153-3/; those would end up in Lab Procedure Hierarchy
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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Specimen CMT - Hosting Options | Discussed CMT concept map proposal for HL7 TI WG |
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European Semantic work | Link to the German FHIR IG around suceptibility testing: | |
Creating Value Sets for specimen related attributes |
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Specimen CMT pilot implementers | no updates |
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Specimen CMT - education | no updates |
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Specimen CMT - tracking implementation impact
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Specimen CMT - Compare to NHSN Medical Terminology | Will get updated vocab at a later date - from Sheila Abner | |
Future projects for this call after CMT | no updates |
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Recording:
Chat:
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