Anatomic Pathology Work Group

Mission

The mission of the Anatomic Pathology WG is to develop and review implementation guides of HL7 standards and to enhance existing HL7 standards to support anatomic pathology use cases. It will work within HL7 as well as with external organizations to facilitate information interoperability in anatomic pathology, such as:

• Tracking of anatomic pathology specimens
• Structuring and coding of anatomic reports
• Integrating and consolidating anatomic pathology data and other data into the medical record (e.g. integrated composite reports)
• Ensuring consistency of anatomic pathology data and corresponding image association (includes both radiology and pathology imaging)
• Reviewing previously defined terms that differ between organizations (e.g. What is a “specimen”)
• Developing/reviewing value sets as needed (e.g. DICOM Specimen Embedding Media)
• Collecting and sharing data from biorepositories/tissue banks

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Charter

The basic charter of the Anatomic Pathology work group is to initially support the development and implementation of Version 2.x and CDA. Use cases and/or implementation guides brought to the group for review that include Version 3.0 will be addressed on an individual basis. Since the mission of the group is to review existing implementation guides/profiles and recommend changes as needed, as opposed to creating entirely new standard definitions, most work will focus on use case or organization specific needs.

Legend

• - business
• - ballot reconciliation
• - technical
• / = joint session
• + = session with representatives of

Date	Quarter	Icon	Event	Chair	Scribe	Room
Monday, September 23	Q1		No meeting
	Q2		No meeting
	Q3		No meeting
	Q4		No meeting
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Tuesday, September 24	Q1		Group business (DMP, project status, etc.)
	Q2		Talk about combined lab and imaging workflow (Harry S.) and DICOM WG26 update
	Q3		Structured reporting (APSR and beyond)
	Q4		AP image data...Potential for a project (JDLN)
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Wednesday, September 25	Q1		OO/II/AP/CG Specimen Project
	Q2		No meeting
	Q3		No meeting
	Q4		No meeting
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Thursday, September 26	Q1		No meeting
	Q2		No meeting
	Q3		No meeting
	Q4		No meeting
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Friday, September 27	Q1		No Meeting
	Q2		No Meeting
	Q3		No Meeting
	Q4		No Meeting

Past Agendas

Agenda for San Diego, 2011

• AP WGM Agenda September 2011

Agenda for San Antonio, 2012

• AP WGM Agenda Jan 2012

Agenda for Vancouver, BC 2012

• AP WGM Agenda May 2012

Agenda for Baltimore, 2012

• AP WGM Agenda September 2012

Agenda for Scottsdale, January 2013

• AP WGM Agenda January 2013

Agenda for Atlanta, May 2013

• AP WGM Agenda May 2013

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Temporary Contents

Files/Links for Review

CAP Cancer Biomarker Project [1]

Draft SWOT [2]

Trello Concept

Trello Board [3]

HL7 Germany Work on Lab Specimen Reports

Original Work (in German) [4]

English translation [5]

Latest Version of Ballot

[6]

Latest Ballot Comments

[7]

Update 20120628: Updated Spec ID doc

• June 28 2012 Version of the Unique Specimen ID Document

• Files for 20120412 Conference Call

• AP Files for Review