2024-01-17 Communications and Branding Meeting Minutes

Date

Jan 17, 2024

Attendees

Discussion

• CAP Today Article Update/Discussion

  • Kevin’s update: Spoke with Bob McGonagle:

    • Share names of who we want to have interviewed

    • We can send them collateral (reference documentation)

    • All sources will have opportunity to review the draft

    • No need for questions in advance, may want to talk to sources in advance to determine how they’d like to orient the story.

    • Consider including other sources as well.

    • CAP has a contract with FDA related to LIDR. CAP team is looking to get their own CAP article. Potentially some overlap in content. Kevin will be coordinating with other team.

    • Late 2021 article: New hope for lab data interoperability - CAP TODAY (captodayonline.com)

• Overview/Outline Document for article - Nirmala to work on Background/History. Eric to edit other sections.

• LIS Vendor and IVD Vendor recruitment - Discussed opportunities to get more LIS and IVD Vendors involved:

  • LIS

    • Meditech

    • Clinisys (Sunquest, Data Innovations)

    • SCC (Soft Computing)

    • Cerner

    • Blood Bank LIS

    • AP LIS (ex, Psyche Systems, Novopath, etc.)

    • Orchard

  • IVD

    • Beckman Coulter

    • Coag market vendors

    • Foundation Medicine

    • Abbott

  • HIMSS could be an opportunity to solicit participation from some of the vendors (primarily LIS, but some IVD vendors may also be attending)

• Presentation opportunities - Need to review on next meeting

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