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Meeting Details

Date: April 21, 2023

Time: 1PM ET

Coordinates:  Join Zoom meeting: https://zoom.us/j/5100467805 | Meeting ID: 510 046 7805 | +1 929-436-2866-US (New York)


Attendees: 

Rob Hausam, Hans Buitendijk, Alicia Francis, Andrea Pitkus, Kathy Walsh, Pam Banning, Sheryl Taylor, Ralf Herzog, Dan Rutz

Co-chair: Hans Buitendijk

Scribe: Hans Buitendijk/Ralf Herzog

  • Quorum (Co-Chair + 2) Met 

AGENDA

  • Laboratory Data Interoperabily RFI by ONC

Meeting Resources

JIRA Dashboards:

Meeting Minutes

Previous Meeting Notes



Laboratory Data Interoperability RFI by ONC

ONC issued a proposed rule to advance, among other topics, certification criteria.  It includes an RFI on Laboratory Data Interoperability for future rule making consideration.

We expect that the HL7 PAC will request input on the NPRM in general.  In the Lab meetings we will start to address the questions raised.


As we start to create our response, the potential timeline could be as soon as the fall of 2023 considering ONC has the following scope of a pending rule for the fall: "standards adoption; the certification of health IT to support expanded uses of application programming interfaces (APIs), such as electronic prior authorization, patient engagement, and interoperable public health exchange; and supporting patient engagement and other information sharing principles under the information blocking regulations."  That can be fairly broad for Lab under "standards adoption" alone.

We will used the attached confluence page to gather comments.  Note that it is the copy of RFI text and that suggestions for comments should be placed in the OO Comments: section for each question.

OO - ONC NPRM Laboratory RFI Worksheet





Standing Topics


Discussed:
  • Yes
  • No

eSignature Update

  • Waiting for CMS - 1 June check-in

eSignature Update

2023-02-24 OO - LAB/LIVD has PAC feedback discussion

Any Update?

Race/Ethnicity Topics from OMB and CDC

  • Waitning to see what comes back from the feedback - July 1 check in?

New Rule on Race/Ethnicity from OMB 

Background:


ONC New Proposed Rule

LIVD

  • LIVD calls being now every other Thursday 2 - 3 PM EDT starting May 4, 2023

Update from FHIR Lab Workflow call - not discussed

JIRA Triage

Discussed:
  • Yes
  • No

V2 Lab JIRAs (link)

  • V2-25518 – Update the concept in RFR to account for Gender Harmony updates – should change Administrative Sex to Sex Parameter for Clinical Use as that is the concept we are really using to define reference ranges
    • So change the name to Sex Parameter for Clinical Use and the value set that is linked to from HL70001 to HL70828 in RFR datatype in Chapter 2C
    • And update the examples where needed
    • Adopt the changes in all places where RFR is used
    • Motion to find persuasive with mod – Ralf Herzog, Riki Merrick
      • Further discussion:
        • The new table was proposed by Gender Harmony
        • The name was changed from Sex for Clinical Use to Sex Parameters for Clinical Use
        • Against: 0, abstain: 1, in favor: 8
      • Non-compatible – substantive
    • He linked them to several ballot comments
    • Send to GH main group and see what they say – add comment with this vote
  • V2-25391 – SPM-1 Set ID
    • V2 Management discussed this in more general terms – the best practice is to reset for the context it belongs to, but others do it for the entire message (for error tracking) – so in the base we don’t want to look it down, but be explicit that an implementation guide must state how to treat the set ID and with which number to start.
    • Review the V2 Management Notes and bring back with updated text proposal, based on the quality criteria discussion and add as proposed disposition @Riki
  • V2-25384 – V2-FHIR mapping of MSH-7
    • Is asking to add a comment that this mapping can ONLY happen if timezone-offset is populated in MSH-7, because that is required in bundle.timestamp per the base definition of datetime
      • is a comment enough, or do we need a different FHIR datatype?
      • If you get a time, but no timezone-offset, then you have 2 options:
        • Guess
        • Strip off the time
        • Neither of this is great for mapping and relative time is still important to retain
      • Add to WGM agenda with FHIR-I joint and copy this text into a comment on the ticket
  • V2-25361 – how to echo back the Placer Order number when having received an unsolicited POCTresult
    • We don’t have an application level ACK message structure for ORU messages, so we don’t have a way to send the Placer Order number.
    • You could use ORA messages, similar to how we do it for the ORU^R30
    • Add to WGM agenda for joint with devices – Tuesday Q4
  • V2-25341 – OBX-5 for specimen rejection in LRI
    • Is OBX-5 required when OBX-11 = X or N since we added OBX-32?
      • On first search of the latest version of LRI cannot find that sentence
      • @Riki will do some research if this is still an issue

FHIR Lab JIRA (link)

Add JIRAs for Next time – related to Lab

From Chat:

Call Adjourned at 1:59 PM ET

Next Meeting: April 21, 2023

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