Appendix E Informatics Quest Pathology Reporting.pdf

Division of Laboratory Systems

Excellent Laboratories, Outstanding Health

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

DIVISION OF LABORATORY SYSTEMS

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

DIVISION OF LABORATORY SYSTEMS

Excellent Laboratories, Outstanding Health

CDC-RFA-OE20-20010101SUPP20: Enhancing Public Health Laboratory Capabilities and Increasing Capacity

Supplemental Project Proposal Appendix D: Informatics

Appendix E: Informatics

Focus Area Name: Informatics

Focus Area Contact Information Jasmine Chaitram, zoa6@cdc.gov Jason Hall, zfr9@cdc.gov

1. General Information

Project Name Informatics – Quest including Pathology Reporting

Project Activity Contact Information Jason Hall and Sandy Jones

Approximate Amount of Supplemental Funding Available $1,500,000

2. Project Description

I. Purpose

APHL informatics staff consultants will continue to participate in and support collaboration with Quest Diagnostics and state PHA ELR feeds, will develop a mechanism to provide lab results from Quest Diagnostics’ non-standard lab Oxford to all state PHAs through AIMS, will investigate the provision of cancer results from Boston Scientific Laboratories to all state

PHAs through AIMS, and will investigate hosting a natural language processing (NLP) tool to allow free text information/notes to be parsed and reformatted into standardized/discrete results as a service on AIMS.

II. Justification

Laboratory orders and results are critical pieces of data to support public health case management and investigation. Acquiring laboratory information from Quest and/or other large commercial laboratories using AIMS is an efficient approach to delivering this information to

STLTs.

III. Identification of need

Response to current COVID-19 pandemic serves as a key example of how critical laboratory information is to public health practice and response. Exchanging these data seamlessly in a timely fashion is a key requirement of this effort.

IV. New or expanded project

This work will continue and expand existing work with Quest and other labs.

mailto:zoa6@cdc.gov mailto:zfr9@cdc.gov

3. Outcomes

Activities in this project should achieve or contribute to the following proximal outcomes:

Improved understanding of data-related challenges and data-informatics solutions among laboratory professionals and stakeholders

Activities in this project should achieve or contribute to the following intermediate outcomes:

IO-5 . Improved data exchange and interoperability among public health laboratories and their partners Activities in this project should contribute to the following long-term outcome:

Improved effectiveness of public health laboratories, individually and as components of a national system

4. Strategies and Activities

List specific strategies, activities, and process measures

Strategy/Activity Process Measure S4. Laboratory Quality, Safety, and Informatics for Public Health Testing Services, Surveillance and Response

S4.1. Develop and implement informatics-related solutions and standards to improve data exchange and interoperability

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5. Budget

CELS/DLS project officers will provide budget spreadsheet for APHL to complete for requested funds by object class category

By submitting this project plan, I certify that my CIO currently does not maintain a comparable NOFO for similar activities and the proposed use of funds is consistent with the appropriation.

R e c o v e r a b l e S i g n a t u r e

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T e c h n i c a l M o n i t o r S i g n a t u r e

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Please note: APHL is expected to collaborate with their CDC point of contact and/or technical monitor for this project to develop realistic measurable process objectives. In response to this proposal, APHL should provide a detailed work plan with: Outcomes, outcome measures, strategies/activities, and process measures.

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