2025-12-03 Steering Committee Meeting Notes
Date
Dec 3, 2025
Attendees
(bolded names indicate attendance)
Stakeholder group | SHIELD organization | Name of SHIELD member | organization designation |
Industry Entity | Labgnostic, Inc. | Steve Box | primary |
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| alternate | |
Epic | Dan Rutz | primary | |
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| alternate | |
Biomerieux | Xavier Gansel | primary | |
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| alternate | |
Roche | Nick Decker | primary | |
Roche | Open | 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 - regrets | primary | |
UT Southwestern Medical Center | Hung Luu | primary | |
UNMC | Scott Campbell | primary | |
Longtime Lab Professional | Carmen Pugh | primary | |
Sonic Healthcare | Eric Crugnale | primary | |
Former Quest Diagnostics | Collom, Craig D - regrets | primary | |
Patient Advocate | OPEN | OPEN | individual |
Standards Organization | SNOMED International
| Jim Case - regrets | primary |
Monica Harry | alternate | ||
Regenstrief Institute
| Marjorie Rallins | primary | |
Eza Hafeza - regrets | alternate | ||
HL7
| Julia Skapik | primary | |
| alternate | ||
Professional Organization | Association of Public Health Laboratories
| Riki Merrick | primary |
Christina Gallegos | alternate | ||
Logica
| Stan Huff | primary | |
| alternate | ||
CAP
| Raj Dash | primary | |
| alternate | ||
AMP
| Robyn Temple | primary | |
| alternate | ||
ADLM | Li Zha | primary | |
Governmental - non Voting | CMS | Michael Smalara | primary |
Open | alternate | ||
ASTP/ONC | Sara Armson | primary | |
OPEN | alternate | ||
CDC | Hubert Vesper (/DDNID/NCEH/DLS) | primary | |
Jasmine Chaitram | alternate | ||
NLM | OPEN | primary | |
OPEN | alternate | ||
FDA | Keith Campbell | primary | |
Victoria Derbyshire | alternate |
Agenda and Notes
Item | Notes |
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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 (1 open slot), so 2/3 = 11 is quorum (excluding chair and government members). # of voting member per charter: 13 - 21 # of non-voting members per charter: 7
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Open Meeting | 12:10 PM ET - no quorum |
Conferences/Webinars | No updates |
Next calls
| All SHIELD Calls
General Updates: 2024 - WG Chairs please make sure we have material for updates (at least notes we can link to) Special Topic: Jan 13, 2026 - Any Topic? Steering Committee: Dec 17, 2025 CDC Forum Call in January 2026 date TBD Topic: UDI in HL7 |
Membership | #1 Waiting for official NLM representative since John Snyders departure from NLM - Raja Cholan is still working on getting a new representatives, asked to keep informed on any feedback that is NLM related #2 Announced the open Steering Committee slots on the ALL SHIELD call in July #3 Looking for Co-Chair for Vocab and Standards WG - Scott said he will help - YEAH!!! |
Serge’s proposals for raising awareness | What the message to HHS Leadership should/could be - review the Lab Report and find those things where we can connect the dots to get traction on standards adoption (given a vision for 2030) Next steps:
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THANK YOU to all the WG Chairs for their effort in moving SHIELD work forward!!! - will review again in January | |
Look for eVote shortly | |
Standards WG Vocab Follow up |
Discussion today: #3 - is just a statement #9 - thre may be reason to have free text - when you want patient’s words, vs more formal codifying for summarizing work with the Lab community what should be free, discrete vs discrete coded #10 & 11 - should provide SCT with the recommendations, this is not for LRI specifically - but when / if hte speicmne CMT cannot be using the FHIR concpetmap resource, we may have the push to get SCT to work on this in their Quality improvement initiative (Jim Case) #12 is just an overall statement #13 - related to #9 - is workflow issue and implementation problem - need to have a community to work on this and then create that guidance - we did the EHR-S Funcitonal requirements for LRI - but that was problematic; in general the EHR-WG might be the right place, but not currently the right people; should this be created by ACLA or CAP, AMP or other professional organization? Example: CAP synoptic reporting structures Robyn and Scott will brainstorm on next steps. LabMCoP could be an option for convening #14 - also applies to LIS vendors - same as #13 and #9 #15 - mapping to LOINC, when some LOINCs are prescribed by CMS or HEDIS; roll up using the LOINC Ontology should be easier to deal with that - also LIDR is supposed to help there, too need to decide on the preferred model and provide conversion tools between the different models pragmatic implementation is often the culprit PIQI framework effort is aiming to give you a quality report on your data to evaluate your implemantation to help folks address that Next Steps: Think about how to distill this document and what to do with it for next call |
Placeholder to get back to later |
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From Chat:
Missed taking screenshots - but I don;t recall seeing any links or importnat messages, that are not also captured in notes above - sorry
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