SHIELD Contract 101
Important Briefings
IKM Capabilities
Acronyms
Key Stakeholders
100

This organization is dedicated to addressing systems safety and reducing patient harm

Who is Synensys

100

This document includes comprehensive one pagers for all DxD funded contracts and is still a work in progress

What is the DxD Program Report (formerly the Annual Report)

100

This repository is intended to serve as the laboratory data source of truth

What is LIDR

100

SHIELD

What is Systemic Harmonization and Interoperability Enhancement for Laboratory Data

100

The current Commissioner of the FDA

Who is Robert McKinnon Califf

200

This organization is in charge of a CLIA Certification program dedicated to quality assurance

Who is CAP

200

A presentation on the implications of AI on Terminology was given at this conference

What is the AMIA 2023 Annual Symposium

200

This feature of IKM helps determine equivalence or uniqueness of a concept
(Hint: Andrew gave a brown bag about this) 

The Classifier/Reasoner

200

CDRH

What is Center for Devices and Radiological Health
200

Keith's Boss

Who is Sara Brenner

300

This organization is piloting an OpenCDX platform for OTC data

Who is SAFE Health

300

This document was developed to outline the path forward for bringing LIDR to reality

What is the LIDR Action Plan

300
These are the 3 core elements of the Tinkar Model

What are concept, pattern, and semantic

300

ANF

What is Analysis Normal Form

300

The National Coordinator for Health IT at ONC

Who is Micky Tripathi

400

This contractor group is responsible for the overall user experience design of Komet

Who is Amplified by Design

400

This presentation, catered toward IVD manufacturers, included a new slide that shows some of the data elements in a LIVD file and why LIVD alone isn't enough

What is the IVD Roundtable

400

This is the common set of metadata for every Tinkar component

What is STAMP

400

PASTF

What is Procedural, Assertional, Statement, Terminology, Foundational
400

These 4 organizations make up the Quad Squad

Who is CDC, CMS, FDA, and ONC

500

This paper assessed the effectiveness of LIVD pre- and post-implementation (bonus points if you know the full title)

What is the 5 Lab Study (Encoding Laboratory Testing Data: Case Study of the National Implementation of HHS Requirements and Related Standards in 5 Laboratories)

500

This audience received a presentation in December on a general overview of SHIELD and the control structure developed by Synensys

Who is the Quad Squad

500

This user archetype is someone who would want to view, manage, and compare different knowledge standards. They are often a public official or someone like Keith and care about ensuring high quality data

Who is a Knowledge Strategist
500

STAMP

Status, Time, Author, Module, Path

500

These individuals are known within our team as the "3 Campbells of Informatics"

Who are Keith Campbell (FDA), Scott Campbell (UNMC), and Jim Campbell (UNMC)

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