Converting Lab Test to Diagnostic Report

[ChillarAnand]

As per FHIR standards, we should use Diagnostic Report for the following tests.

• Laboratory (Clinical Chemistry, Hematology, Microbiology, etc.)
• Pathology / Histopathology / related disciplines
• Imaging Investigations (x-ray, CT, MRI etc.)
• Other diagnostics - Cardiology, Gastroenterology etc.

For imaging studies, report will also include a descriptive report.

In the first stage, we can rename Lab Test to Diagnostic Report. Add a descriptive result in the template which will be carried over to the diagnostic report. This will help RIS users to use this for storing reports.

Ref: https://www.hl7.org/fhir/diagnosticreport.html

[mujeerhashmi]

Much needed for a long time. The descriptive result template field should be of type text-editor.

For one of our clients, we used a separate doctype to store result templates linked with lab test templates. Because the reports differ in the case of normal, abnormal, and based on diagnosis, etc. So they get to store different types of templates for the same diagnostic test. At the time of reporting, they get to select the template and the report is auto-loaded for them to edit the relevant content.