2023-10-03 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

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

primary

Tufts Medical Center

Nanguneri Nirmala

primary

Sonic Healthcare

Eric Crugnale

primary

Former Quest Diagnostics

Collom, Craig D

primary

Patient Advocate

Stacy Lange

individual

Standards Organization

SNOMED International

James T. Case

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

OPEN

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 19 named members, so 2/3 = 12 (excluding chair and government members).

Open Meeting

12:05 PM ET

Updates

• Welcome Stacy - brief round of introductions - Stacy not on, so will do next call

Review Working Groups progress

• Laboratory Interoperability Data Registry (LIDR) Working Group

  • Decided to create LIVD format data collection for Serum Potassium analyzers - as example of harmonized tests

  • UDI presentation will be on the call on 10/9

• IVD Data Hub

  • Working on white paper to document the vison of the IVD datahub - have outline, reviewing over next week and then research different sections across the WG members

• Standards Updates and Vocabulary Working Group

  • no meeting this week

  • have good spread of SMEs across different domains, so will identify what specific use cases to focus on by creating a matrix of impact and clinical benefit - might put one from micro / qualitative / quantitative - survey to go out this week to WG members with response before the next call

• Communications and Branding Working Group

  • several questions around WG charge and scope<ADD LINK>:

    • Communication channels

      • admin for sure,

      • content need to differentiate between informal (Communication WG) and formal communications (Steering WG)

        • formal: Roadmap, formal SHIELD WG deliverables, SHIELD community presentations, linkedin

        • informal: 2 pagers, outreach email branding, announcements, communicaton channels (limited folks)

      • types of channels:

        • current confluence page

        • webpage with SHIELD domain name (WG to bring back costs. maybe allow sponsor notice on the webpage)

        • linkedIn profile - WG to review

        • Twitter (X) - WG to review

    • Be another set of eyes on presentation to have consistent look and feel

    • Coordinate / collate suggestions for presentations / conferences

    • SHIELD Logo was created for the SHIELD community (the X means Diagnostics), WG can alter, if desired

SHIELD#2 call Topic Ideas

• More test naming topics?

  • CAP Today article https://www.captodayonline.com/many-knots-to-untangle-in-lab-test-names/

  • LOINC naming perspective - aim for Dec 12, 2023

• Update on CAP Cancer summit?

• Netherlands perspective

2024/25 Conferences we might want to submit abstracts to

• ASCLS Annual Meeting - ASCLS Jul 8 – 12 in Pittsburgh, PA submissions due by Nov 4, 2023

• https://meeting.aacc.org/conference-program Jul 24 - Aug 1, 2024 in Chicago, IL submissions due by November 3, 2023 at 5 p.m. US Eastern Time

• Executive War College Apr 30 – May 1, 2024 in New Orleans, LO

• https://www.oncannualmeeting.com/ Dec 14 - 15, 2023 in Washington, DC

European Outreach

• Update on NHS connection effort

• Others?

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

October 3, 2023 12-1 PM ET

October 10, 2023 - Synensis presenting on their work

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

Announcement

This is Aaron’s last day on the SC

Adjourned

 12:53 PM ET