2026-02-18 Steering Committee Meeting Notes

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

Monica Harry

alternate

Regenstrief Institute

Marjorie Rallins

primary

Eza Hafeza

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

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

alternate

ADLM

Li Zha

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

• ​https://aphlinformatics.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SC/pages/4044390445Open

  • eVote outcome: missing 2 votes; Riki will follow up with those folks

• Nominations so far on 2026 SC tab = review participation for 2025: ​https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QwCPA5haECNxPNAcJ8EeLzkxKcjxiktstlSJl3KpBOE/edit?gid=218103267#gid=218103267Open

• 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

• ​https://aphlinformatics.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SC/pages/4170186771Open - not discussed today

​https://aphlinformatics.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SC/pages/4171104264Open

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