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A diagnostic catalog contains all the pertinent information about the diagnostic services you provide, including your analytes, reference ranges, panels, specimen requirements, and laboratory procedures.

LOINC (Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes) was established with the intention of defining a universal standard for identifying clinical data in electronic reports. The overall scope of LOINC is anything you can test, measure, or observe about a patient.

Many clinical scenarios span multiple visits over weeks, months, or years. A patient managing type 2 diabetes, for example, will have quarterly check-ups, lab orders, specialist referrals, and lifestyle interventions that all belong to the same ongoing case. A single Encounter captures one visit, but it cannot represent the full arc of care.

In on our previous guide about creating diagnostic services catalog, we described the importance of the ObservationDefinition resource for storing metadata about the Observations produced by the test. This metadata is not just for ensuring data correctness, but also a key component in assisting providers with data interpretation.

Workflow management is an essential part of healthcare, and healthcare operations requiring coordination of many manual steps physicians, patients, nurses, care coordinators, etc. Generally, our goals are to