The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) of the National
Institutes of Health are announcing the following public workshop entitled
“FDA/CDC/NLM Workshop on Promoting Semantic Interoperability of Laboratory
Data.”

The purpose of the workshop is to receive and discuss input from stakeholders
regarding proposed approaches to promoting the semantic interoperability of
laboratory data between in vitro diagnostic devices and database systems, including
laboratory information systems and electronic health records.