2023-09-19 SHIELD Steering Committee Meeting Notes

Stakeholder group

SHIELD organization

Name of SHIELD member

organization designation

Industry Entity

Labgnostic, Inc.

Aaron Green

primary

Steve Box

alternate

Epic

Dan Rutz

primary

alternate

Biomerieux

Xavier Gansel

primary

alternate

Roche

Nick Decker - regrets

primary

Roche

 Yue Jin

alternate

Healthcare Provider

Indiana University/Indiana University Health/Association for Molecular Pathology

Mehdi Nassiri, MD

primary

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Andrea Pitkus, PhD, MLS(ASCP)CM, FAMIA

primary

UT Southwestern Medical Center

Hung Luu

primary

UNMC

Scott Campbell - regrets

primary

Tufts Medical Center

Nanguneri Nirmala

primary

Sonic Healthcare

Eric Crugnale

primary

Former Quest Diagnostics

Collom, Craig D

primary

Standards Organization

SNOMED International

James T. Case - regrets

primary

Monica Harry

alternate

Regenstrief Institute

Marjorie Rallins

primary

Eza Hafeza

alternate

HL7

Julia Skapik

primary

alternate

Professional Organization

Association of Public Health Laboratories

Riki Merrick

primary

Dari Shirazi

alternate

Graphite Health

Stan Huff - regrets

primary

alternate

CAP

Raj Dash

primary

alternate

AMP

Robyn Temple

primary

alternate

Governmental - non Voting

CMS

Serafina Brea

primary

alternate

ONC

Sara Armson

primary

alternate

CDC

Hubert Vesper (/DDNID/NCEH/DLS)

primary

Jasmine Chaitram - regrets

alternate

NLM

 John Snyder

primary

alternate

FDA

 Keith Campbell

primary

 Victoria Derbyshire

alternate

Quorum evaluation (two-thirds (2/3) of the Voting Representatives shall be necessary to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business)

Currently we have 18 named members, so 2/3 = 12 (excluding chair and government members).

Open Meeting

Agenda review started 12:05 PM ET - attained quorum 12:07 PM ET

LOINC Conference presentation

• Review the slides for SHIELD presentation by Andrea Pitkus, Riki Merrick - the slides were emailed

  • Consider adding the ‘100%’ slide we have in the flyer

  • We will be updating the email for questions at the end (and add in the QR code

• Motion to approve this set as provisionally approved - members are encouraged to forward feedback after more detailed off-line review to Andrea and Riki - if major changes occur, we will bring back to SC on October 3 call- Eric, Hung, no further discussion, against: 0, abstain: 0, in favor: 14

SNOMED Conference

• Review the onepager that CDC will have at their booth

• • made some updates = the version above with track changes represents the state at the end of the meeting

• Motion to forward to CDC for their clearance - Craig, Hung, no further discussion, against: 0, abstain: 0, in favor: 14

• LOINC will also distribute this onepager at their conference - they will cover the printing

Updates

• Proposed new members for the SC - when do we want to vote on these?

  • Patient Advocate position:

    • Stacy Lange has been in patient advocacy for over 10 years (we talked about her last call)

      • Motion to invite Stacy - Hung, Raj, no further discussion, against: 0, abstain: 0, in favor: 14

  • Motion to allow Steve Box to be alternate for Labgnostic - Aaron, Eric, no furhter discussion - against: 0, abstain: 0, in favor: 14

European Outreach

• Update on NHS connection effort - not discussed

• Others?

Review Working Groups progress

• Laboratory Interoperability Data Registry (LIDR) Working Group

• IVD Data Hub

• Standards Updates and Vocabulary Working Group

• Communications and Branding Working Group

  • several questions around WG charge and scope = will make this a topic for next call

  • discuss options for website and domain name

    • figure out how to pay for that and other incidentals

Roadmap section updates in response to ONC comments on the SHIELD roadmap

We will talk about approach to updates in general and these specific comments in particular related to the ONC comments

Next calls

September 26, 2023 - ALL SHIELD call

October 3, 2023 12-1 PM ET

October 10, 2023 - Synensis presenting on their work

Cancel Oct 17, 2023, since overlapping with the LOINC meeting!

October 24, 2023 - ALL SHIELD call - overlapping with SNOMED business meeting - move to October 31? - discuss on ALL SHIELD call

Adjourned

 1:00 PM ET