Laboratory pan-Canadian Standards Group (Lab pCSG)

Overview

Common Laboratory (Lab) messaging and terminology standards and interoperability profiles are critical to achieving Infoway's goal of an interoperable pan-Canadian Electronic Health Record. To accelerate the establishment and the adoption of Laboratory pan-Canadian Standards, Infoway has initiated the Laboratory pan-Canadian Standards Project (Lab Standards Project).

The purpose of the Lab Standards Project is to establish pan-Canadian message and nomenclature standards.

The goal of this project is to ensure that information contained within a lab test or lab result is standardized, thus enabling semantic interoperability of clinical information. The Laboratory pan-Canadian Standards Group (Lab pCSG) will be tasked with reviewing and validating business requirements as well laboratory messaging, terminology standards and interoperability profiles to ensure they reflect pan-Canadian requirements.

Membership

The Laboratory pan-Canadian Standards Group is a group of stakeholders representing jurisdictions, end users in the healthcare community and vendors.

The following individuals have been selected to participate in this group:

Group Member Stakeholder Category Title & Other Declared Organizational Affiliation Email Telephone
Dr Tadaaki Hiruki Provider - Pathologist Canadian Association of Pathologists hirukit@cancerboard.ab.ca

 780.432.8445
Dr Gilbert Hill Provider - Clinical Biochemist Canadian Society of Clinical Chemists Hill1224@rogers.com

416.813.6666
Dr David Chan Provider - General Practitioner --- -

 905.575.1300
Hrvoje Medvedovic Provider --- hmedvedovic@gmail.com

 647.291.6546
Goldie Tremblay Provider - Technologist Manager, Lab Information Systems, Saskatoon Health Region goldie.tremblay@saskatoonhealthregion.ca

 306.655.8516
Carol Head Provider - Technologist Newfoundland Public Health Laboratory carol.head@hccsj.nl.ca

 709.777.6536
Judi Morgan Private Sector Excelleris jmorgan@excelleris.com

 604.658.2107
Jean-Benoit Cournoyer Private Sector Omnimed jbcournoyer@omnimed.com

 514.951.1224
Pierre Léveillé Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) CIHI pleveille@cihi.ca

 506.849.0872
Niki Vegh-Yarema Canadian Public Health Laboratory Network (CPHLN) CPHLN niki_veghyarema@phac-aspc.gc.ca

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Wendy Johnson Jurisdiction - British Columbia PLCO, Senior Clinical Advisor wejohnso@plco.ca

 604.660.4544
Terry Chelich Jurisdiction - Alberta Director, Laboratory Services, Calgary Health Region terry.chelich@calgaryhealthregion.ca

 403.670.4521
Bosco Hui Jurisdiction - Saskatchewan Business Analyst, Lab Information System, Regina Qu'Appelle Health Region Bosco.Hui@rqhealth.ca

 306.766.6849
Robin Smith Jurisdiction - Manitoba Lab Manager, Westman Regional Lab smithr@brandonrha.mb.ca

 204.726.2016
Marnie Cooper Jurisdiction - Ontario Director (Acting) Laboratories Branch Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care marnie.cooper@moh.gov.on.ca

 416.314.1434
Dr Jacques Massé Jurisdiction - Québec Head, Division of medical biochemistry j.masse@sympatico.ca

 450.975.5304
Simonne Poirier Jurisdiction - New Brunswick System Analyst, Beausejour Health Corporation SimonneP@rrsb.nb.ca

 506.862.4306
Dr Calvino K. Cheng Jurisdiction - Nova Scotia Staff, Hematopathologist/Division of Hematology Capital District Health Authority calvino.cheng@cdha.nshealth.ca

 902.473.3140
Dave Schneider Jurisdiction - PEI Technical Director Laboratory Services for Acute Care and Lab Manager, QEH dgschneider@ihis.org

 902.894.2064
Lynn Wade Jurisdiction - Newfoundland & Labrador Client Services Manager, Lab Med Program lynn.wade@hccsj.nl.ca

 709.777.7718
Karen Girling Jurisdiction - Yukon Manager, Lab Services karen.girling@wgh.yk.ca

 867.393.8767
Audrey Saxton Jurisdiction - Nunavut Laboratory Manager asaxton@gov.nu.ca

 867.979.7320
Cheryl Cooper Jurisdiction - NWT Laboratory Advisory Committee representative cheryl_cooper@gov.nt.ca

 867.669.4166
Tamara C. Kruk Jurisdiction - Federal CPHLN tamara_c_kruk@phac-aspc.gc.ca

 204.789.7055
Marc Koehn Chair Canada Health Infoway mkoehn@infoway-inforoute.ca

 250.483.5149

How to get involved

Online Forum & Mailing List

An online discussion forum (Pan-Canadian Lab Standards) has been established to support this work. To register for the forum go to knowledge.infoway-inforoute.ca.

The mailing list provides project updates and notifications as specifications are made available for review. To subscribe please contact standards@infoway-inforoute.ca.

How to get more information

For additional information on the Lab pan-Canadian Standards Group Project please contact standards@infoway-inforoute.ca.