2026-02-10 LIDR Meeting Notes

Hung Luu

Children’s

Riki Merrick - regrets

Vernetzt, APHL

Andrea Pitkus

University of Wisconsin

Pam Banning

3M - Solventum

Xavier Gansel

Biomerieux

Amy McCormick

Epic

Dan Rutz

Epic

Rob Rae

CAP

Rob Hausam

Hausam Consulting

Stan Huff

University of Utah

Ed Heierman

Abbott / IICC

Carmen Pugh

long term lab professional

Laurent Lardin

Biomerieux

Ralf Herzog

Roche

Christina Gallegos

APHL

Follow up on UDI representation

Adding Conclusion here:

Will keep filling this page out to collect all solutions there.

USCDI V7 Draft review

Specimen Collection Time

• Suggest change to the definition: ”Clinically relevant time and/or date a care activity is performed.”

Add hierarchy to SNOMED for Specimen Type and Specimen Source for Applicable Standards

Revisit Use Cases for CDC submitted new data elements

AU solution to the “combine flag”

CDC work on postmarket surveillance

Might be able to add more columns to get “LIVD file content published like this one - example: Certified Total 25-hydroxyvitamin D Assays

LIDR Patterns

• Biomerieux culture plates

• Toxicology screening vs confirmatory

• challenge tests

• urine dipstick variations

• required specimen pre-processing before running on instrument?

Action Item Follow up - Not discussed

• Pull out the definitions from LIVD for test kit and equipment and put here: SHIELD Glossary

  • Review operational definition of “equivalence”

    • Will look for a CLSI defintion

    • also check IFCC definition

• Outreach to Dr. DeBaca

  • Hung will check for more info and maybe see, if she could participate in SHIELD

• Keep updating the googlesheet: Potassium LIVD data

• Shared Reportable Conditions LIVD google sheet for crowdsourcing with CSTE - added sign up sheet for PHAs to specific conditions and see how that develops

• Have LIVD File Repository Requirements

  Have draft budget (for setting up a web-based database and yearly maintenance): https://aphlinformatics.atlassian.net/wiki/download/attachments/915407143/LIDR - Budget.xlsx?api=v2

• Define next steps to migrate existing LIVD files into FHIR LIVD catalog format and find a FHIR server to host

Next call

Tuesday ​Feb 17, 2026 9 - 10 AM ET