2026-02-04 Steering Committee Meeting Notes

Date

Feb 4, 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 - regrets	primary
	UT Southwestern Medical Center	Hung Luu	primary
	UNMC	Scott Campbell	primary
	Longtime Lab Professional	Carmen Pugh - regrets	primary
	Sonic Healthcare	Eric Crugnale - regrets	primary
	Former Quest Diagnostics	Collom, Craig D	primary
Patient Advocate	OPEN	OPEN	individual
Standards Organization	SNOMED International	Jim Case	primary
	SNOMED International	Monica Harry - regrets	alternate
	Regenstrief Institute	Marjorie Rallins	primary
	Regenstrief Institute	Eza Hafeza- regrets	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
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 12:56 PM ET
Steering Committee Membership	https://aphlinformatics.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SC/pages/4044390445 consider what it means for organizational members to “term out” - for some stakeholder groups that might be applicable, but for SDOs and our federal partners for example we need to keep the ones that are relevant engaged consider what benefit we were looking for when we decided on term limits, especially when some members have very specific expertise Nominations so far on 2026 SC tab = review participation for 2025: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QwCPA5haECNxPNAcJ8EeLzkxKcjxiktstlSJl3KpBOE/edit?gid=218103267#gid=218103267 Confluence page to collect https://aphlinformatics.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SC/pages/4171104264: need to clarify stakeholder incentives to ensure participation for academia paper publication (find a journal that we might approach to be the “SHIELD” voice influence / comments on upcoming regulation with the voice of all stakeholders in the lab data exchange space
Vision 2030 work	https://docs.google.com/document/d/11A9VyhtSGm9dCjJNOi7_eJzz3gPDMYhkmNCoQNVbxuo/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.yp9lsvo5yvsf Discussion today: Give folks time to prep and use the Feb 10 call to complete this draft Next steps: Serge has been invited to the SC meeting on Feb 18, 2026
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?
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: Feb 10, 2026 - Needed for more Vision 2030 work Mar 10, 2026 - Any Topic, maybe update from ASTP Annual Meeting? Steering Committee: Feb 18, 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 Started discussion today: ASTP/ONC meeting will have a session introducing the V7 changes: 2 new data classes: Adverse Events (with 2 of the new data elements) - could include lab results Healthcare Information Attributes (with 2 new and 2 moved data elements) 29 new data elements + 1 very revised and renamed one (Smoking Status → Tobacco Use) suggested improved tooling to support: synonyms of data element names (Example: Performance Time could benefit from that, to indicate that for the lab use case this is Specimen Collection Date/Time) remove data classes and only have data elements that can have tags indicating whihc of the use cases they are needed for (or maybe some data classes could remain and they could act as a grouper for common data elements needed in a use case), so that an EHR-s developer interested in implementing/certifying to a particular use case can easily find the list of elements functionally required to support that use case Discussed how some definitions are very vauge (example Laboratory Orders) - Sara mentioned that is on purpose, so that implementers can figure out what elements are appropriate for their use case rather than overspecifying Collect comments here: https://aphlinformatics.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SC/pages/4170186771
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

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

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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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Riki to create the googlesheet for Vision 2030 statement and share

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

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

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