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20814 Community Collaboration in Laboratory Messaging: Data Access and Utilization Commonalities and Challenges Across Three National Public Health Informatics Workgroups

Tuesday, September 1, 2009: 1:30 PM
Dunwoody
J.A. Magnuson, PhD, RS , Oregon State Health Department, Portland, OR
Jon Lipsky, MBA , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
Ulrike Merrick, MPH , Association of Public Health Laboratories/iConnect Consulting, Silver Spring, MD
Mamie Jennings Mabery, MLn , National Center for Public Health Informatics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
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Three workgroups – ELR, LIMSi, and PHLIP - have come together in a grassroots effort to synchronize and leverage their work in producing, accessing and utilizing laboratory data. This community working session for the emergent Laboratory Messaging Community of Practice (LMCoP) will begin with some context for the formation of this unique CoP provided by a representative of the closely-related Vocabulary and Messaging CoP, followed by a panel review of the objectives and scope of the three working groups, and finally, a facilitated working session during which the CoP will continue its work to identify, prioritize, and organize collaboration opportunities.

A brief summary of the working groups that comprise the LMCoP:

  • Electronic Laboratory Reporting (ELR)

    • Origin: Began in 2001 with calls between several pioneering states, has grown to include CSTE-sponsored monthly calls with representatives from all states, several metropolitan areas, national labs, and CDC.

    • Scope and Purpose: National collaboration on ELR. Has conducted an annual ELR snapshot survey since 2004.

    • Challenges: Differences in message formats and content, incomplete adoption of standardized codes, and changing national priorities

  • LIMS Integration Project (LIMSi)

    • Origin: Began in 2006 among Laboratory Response Network (LRN) labs.

    • Scope and Purpose: To enable laboratories to fulfill data exchange needs for the LRN using their own systems.

    • Challenges: Messaging standards

  • Public Health Laboratory Interoperability Project (PHLIP)

    • Origin: Began in 2006, sponsored by APHL and CDC

    • Scope and Purpose: provide consensus based complete implementation guides to Public Health Laboratories for electronic data exchange amongst themselves as well as required for reporting to EPI.

    • Challenges: Piloting implementation guides, harmonizing vocabulary and definition for data elements

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