Clinical Team
Identifies the need and reviews the result or report.
Orders to Results
Hospital diagnostic orders-to-results workflow from request to clinical review.
Medcognit keeps the investigation request connected to diagnostic work, result or report and the clinical context where the information is reviewed.
- Clinical Need Identified
- Investigation Requested
- Diagnostic Work Received
- Laboratory or Radiology Work
- Laboratory Work
- Radiology Work
- Result / Report
- Clinical Review
- Next Care Step
Diagnostic Orders in HIMS
How does an investigation move from request to result and clinical review?
In Medcognit, an investigation begins from a clinical need and request, moves into diagnostic work, follows either a laboratory or radiology path as applicable, produces a result or report, and returns that diagnostic context for clinical review and the next care step.
- Investigation request
- Clinical need creates the diagnostic request and patient or encounter context.
- Diagnostic path
- The request moves into laboratory or radiology work depending on the investigation.
- Diagnostic output
- The diagnostic path produces the relevant result or report context.
- Clinical return
- The result or report returns to clinical review so the next care context can continue.
Workflow Context
Diagnostic work remains part of the patient encounter.
The diagnostic team performs different work from the clinical team, but the request and result remain part of the same patient and encounter context.
Main Workflow Journey
Main Orders to Results Journey
The request moves into diagnostic work and returns result or report context for clinical review.
- Clinical Need Identified
- Investigation Requested
- Diagnostic Work Received
- Laboratory or Radiology Work
- Laboratory Work
- Radiology Work
- Result / Report
- Clinical Review
- Next Care Step
Workflow Boundary
Laboratory and radiology are alternative diagnostic paths.
Both paths belong to Diagnostics, but they are not the same workflow and both are not required for every investigation.
- Laboratory work and radiology work are alternatives
- Both paths remain connected to Diagnostics
- Result or report context returns to clinical review
- The branch is not a numbered Laboratory to Radiology sequence
Roles & Handoffs
Clinical and diagnostic teams meet at the request and review handoffs.
The key handoff is from clinical need to diagnostic work and back to clinical review with the encounter context intact.
Diagnostics Team
Receives and coordinates diagnostic work context.
Laboratory Team
Handles laboratory-path diagnostic work where needed.
Radiology Team
Handles radiology-path diagnostic work where needed.
Exceptions / Changes
Keep diagnostic changes tied to the original investigation context.
Diagnostic work may need cancellation, recollection, amendment or correction while preserving the request and patient context.
- Cancellation
- Recollection
- Amendment
- Correction
Platform Connections
Orders-to-results connects Clinical Care with Diagnostics.
What Hospitals Should Evaluate
Evaluate the handoff from investigation request to diagnostic output and clinical review.
- Clinical-to-diagnostics handoff
- Lab/radiology path
- Result/report return
- Clinical review
- Exceptions/amendments
- Implementation fit
Related Workflows
See where diagnostic work is created across patient journeys.
Questions to Clarify
Orders-to-results workflow questions to clarify.
What starts the orders-to-results workflow?
The workflow begins when a clinical need creates an investigation request connected to the patient or encounter context.
Do laboratory and radiology happen one after the other?
No. Laboratory and radiology are represented as alternative diagnostic paths. The applicable path depends on the investigation request.
What returns to the clinical team after diagnostic work?
The relevant result or report context returns for clinical review so the diagnostic information can be considered in the next care step.
How are recollection, amendment or correction represented?
They are treated as workflow exceptions that should remain connected to the original investigation, patient and encounter context rather than becoming unrelated work.
Next Action
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