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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Legend

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

Day	Date	'	Time	Icon	Event	Chair	Scribe	Room
Monday, September 23		AM	Q1		No meeting
			Q2		No meeting
		PM	Q3		No meeting
			Q4		No meeting
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Tuesday	September 24	AM	Q1		Group business (DMP, project status, etc.)
			Q2		Talk about combined lab and imaging workflow (Harry S.) and DICOM WG26 update
		PM	Q3		Structured reporting (APSR and beyond)
			Q4		AP device connecivity and role of Unique ID/structured report (JDLN)
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Wednesday	September 25	AM	Q1		OO/II/AP/CG Specimen Project
			Q2		TBD Possible further talks on WG topics
		PM	Q3		No meeting
			Q4		TBD Possible further talks on WG topics
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Thursday	May 16	AM	Q1		TBD. Possible further talks on WG topics
			Q2		TBD. Possible further talks on WG topics
		PM	Q3		No meeting
			Q4		No meeting
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Friday	May 17	AM	Q1		No Meeting
			Q2		No Meeting
		PM	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

Proposed Agenda for May 2013 WG

Meeting Date(s) and Time(s)

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5/7 Tuesday

        09:00 - 10:30 am: MTG  
        11:00 - 12:30 pm: MTG  
        01:45 - 03:00 pm: MTG  
        03:30 - 05:00 pm: MTG  
        05:00 -->      

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5/8 Wednesday

        09:00 - 10:30 am:      
        11:00 - 12:30 pm: MTG  
        01:45 - 03:00 pm: host  CG visiting. Upsize room to 30 ppl.
        03:30 - 05:00 pm: MTG  
        05:00 -->      

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5/9 Thursday

        09:00 - 10:30 am: MTG  
        11:00 - 12:30 pm: MTG  
        01:45 - 03:00 pm:      
        03:30 - 05:00 pm:      
        05:00 -->      

Files for Review

HL7 Germany Work on Lab Specimen Reports

Original Work (in German) [1]

English translation [2]

Latest Version of Ballot

[3]

Latest Ballot Comments

[4]

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