2016-08-01 - OBSERVABLE Meeting

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Welcome & apologies

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• Remember recording!

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Conflicts of interest

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None were stated

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Previous minutes & action items

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LOINC - SNOMED CT cooperation

Suzanne Santamaria

Farzaneh Ashrafi

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gansel (Deactivated)

• Suzanne presented review of the Biomerieux review

• Components containing specimen

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Protein as a proxy for sequence variation

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Scott Campbell

Jim Campbell

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New observables attributes

Suzanne Santamaria

Farzaneh Ashrafi

• Four new attributes are planned for addition in the January 2017 release

• Questions before finalizing the attributes

• See attached presentation

• Relative to..

  • Documentation is important, more so than naming?

  • - Three alternatives:

    • Keep as is originally proposed

    • Rename into something better (e.g. Relative to Inheres in, Relative to Component)

    • Make the observables primitive, if there are only a few cases in LOINC (but there are potentially hundreds - a thousand ) - Generally the least desirable alernative

• Has realization (attribute)

  • "This attribute specifiec the process which is the ralization...

  • Discuss with Penni

• The new "component-like" attribute

  • Try to find ways of keeping the Component description, see Constituent Blog post

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Wellington meeting

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• 1 full day requested

• 1 full day joint with IPaLM

• We should aim for three sessions!

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Next meeting

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Next meeting is Aug 15 20.00 UTC

• Functioning project

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AOB

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