US Realm Taskforce 02/12/204

1. US Realm Taskforce02/12/204 • Maribeth has some slides on the LOINC Order Code initiative as Feik had mentioned last week. New effort inside S&I sponsored by CHCF and led by CDC. Partnered with Regenstrief, it will follow the S&I process and be published by Regenstrief and be cite-able like LOINC but they wished to have HL7 review and participate if we wished. It will add the orderables for the top 2000 commonly resulted tests and will include public health tests. • Woody asks to clarify that the primary objective is to get people to use LOINC for such codes. • Austin clarifies that many public health orders are microbiology related. There are only about 300 existing orderable codes currently. They will propose new codes that LOINC can add. • Many of these tests are batteries of tests or 'panels'; it will indeed attempt to standardize these panels. • Ken cautions that lack of distinction between referring to a LOINC code as its orderable versus its result code can be confusing. This will have to be addressed in the LRI IG. Tying the SNOMED codes to the orderable LOINC codes might try to identify what kind of results they expect to get back from the orderable. They will also post a directory for the CDC, notes Maribeth. Austin notes that all four lab IGs will likely have to be updated for the correct references. • Maribeth adds that Feik will be the person to let HL7 know if things come up.