2026-02-18 Steering Committee Meeting Notes

Date

Feb 18, 2026

Attendees

(bolded names indicate attendance)

Stakeholder group	SHIELD organization	Name of SHIELD member	organization designation
Industry Entity	Labgnostic, Inc.	Steve Box	primary
			alternate
	Epic	Dan Rutz	primary
			alternate
	Biomerieux	Xavier Gansel	primary
			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	primary
	UT Southwestern Medical Center	Hung Luu	primary
	UNMC	Scott Campbell	primary
	Longtime Lab Professional	Carmen Pugh	primary
	Sonic Healthcare / ACLA	Eric Crugnale - regrets	primary
	Former Quest Diagnostics	Collom, Craig D	primary
Patient Advocate	OPEN	OPEN	individual
Standards Organization	SNOMED International	Jim Case - regrets	primary
	SNOMED International	Monica Harry	alternate
	Regenstrief Institute	Marjorie Rallins	primary
	Regenstrief Institute	Eza Hafeza	alternate
	HL7	Julia Skapik	primary
	HL7		alternate
Professional Organization	Association of Public Health Laboratories	Riki Merrick	primary
	Association of Public Health Laboratories	Christina Gallegos	alternate
	Logica	Stan Huff	primary
	Logica		alternate
	CAP	Raj Dash	primary
	CAP		alternate
	AMP	Robyn Temple	primary
	AMP		alternate
Governmental - non Voting	CMS	Michael Smalara	primary
	CMS	Open	alternate
	ASTP/ONC	Sara Armson	primary
	ASTP/ONC	OPEN	alternate
	CDC	Hubert Vesper (/DDNID/NCEH/DLS)	primary
	CDC	Jasmine Chaitram	alternate
	NLM	OPEN	primary
	NLM	OPEN	alternate
	FDA	Keith Campbell	primary
	FDA		alternate
	ADLM	Li Zha

Agenda and Notes

Item	Notes

Item	Notes
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 17 named members (1 open slot, future 3 openings), 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
Open Meeting	12:09 PM ET - no quorum - Adjourn 12:?? PM ET
Vision 2030 work	This topic was moved to March 4th (since Eric is not available today) https://docs.google.com/document/d/11A9VyhtSGm9dCjJNOi7_eJzz3gPDMYhkmNCoQNVbxuo/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.yp9lsvo5yvsf Discussion today: Reviewed the google doc points EHDS goals / targets are: secondary data use EHR (includes LIS) data sharing declared interoperability with EHR-s (still debating what that means Mecido’s position paper on EHDS: <ADD when Xavier sends it> Regenstrief prefers to be vendor / organization agnostic, but could act as a collector of LIVD file content and share that to be published via LIVD/LIDR Discussed expanding the professional organization stakeholder group on the Steering Committee
Steering Committee Membership	Proposed Charter Updates to Article 3 Section 4 - January 2026 eVote outcome: missing 2 votes; Riki will follow up with those folks Nominations so far on 2026 SC tab = review participation for 2025: SC Participation tracker Nick is checking with Cornelia to see, if she is willing to represent Roche
Review SHIELD WG Deliverables and Milestone Grid	THANK YOU to all the WG Chairs for their effort in moving SHIELD work forward!!! Vocab And Standards WG next calls and call information - Julia to set up prior to next week’s All SHIELD call, so we can announce we discussed possibly joining the Vocab and Standards WG folks with the Lab LOINC subcommittee working on order structures - Riki to connect with Pam Banning on that idea
Next calls	All SHIELD Calls Feb 24, 2026 General Updates: 2024 - WG Chairs please make sure we have material for updates (at least notes we can link to) Special Topic: Mar 10, 2026 - Update from ASTP Annual Meeting and rest on USCDI V7 Draft Comments Apr 7, 2026 - topic? May 12, 2026 - LOINC Updates Steering Committee: Mar 4, 2026 CDC Forum Call on Mar 3, 2026 12 - 1 PM ET with Topic: UDI in HL7.
USCDI V7 draft published	comments due by Apr 13, 2026 USCDI Draft-V7 Feedback - not discussed today
Ideas for the longevity of SHIELD Community and work	not discussed today
Placeholder to get back to later	Antimicrobial result reporting - CAP Informatics Commitee will request feedback from Standards and Vocab WG Any updates from CAP? Other presentations to folks at FDA? Data Standards Review Committee of the FDA – work with Helena Sviglin FDA Scientific Computing Board (SCB) Compass group lab

From Chat:

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Action items

Robyn and Scott will brainstorm on next steps for creating guidance document around when to use free text vs discrete data vs coded discrete data and other implementation guidance around coding

Riki to send out eVote on LIDR White Paper => All review and vote!

All review the ASTP/ONC Lab Data Interop report and pull out items that SHIELD can support / identify the order of steps needed to improve adoption

Gather lists of qualitative results from LabCorp (Carmen) ARUP (Jenna), SonicHealth (Eric)

Riki to create the googlesheet for Vision 2030 statement and share

Riki to create pdf and upoad to LIDR Whitepaper page for easy download

Riki to lock all SHIELD pages that are over 1 month old and not currently being used for collaboration

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