2026-01-27 Steering Committee Meeting Notes

Date

Jan 27, 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 - regets	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	Eric Crugnale	primary
	Former Quest Diagnostics	Collom, Craig D	primary
Patient Advocate	OPEN	OPEN	individual
Standards Organization	SNOMED International	Jim Case	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 - regrets	primary
	CAP		alternate
	AMP	Robyn Temple -regrets	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

Agenda and Notes

Item

Notes

Vision 2030 work

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: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11A9VyhtSGm9dCjJNOi7_eJzz3gPDMYhkmNCoQNVbxuo/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.yp9lsvo5yvsf

Discussion today:

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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

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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

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

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