Difference between revisions of "Laboratory Analytical Workflow Profile"

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This profile is part of the Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (PaLM) domain, which merged the former AP and LAB domains since 2016, January 4th.

The Laboratory Analytical Workflow (LAW) profile addresses the exchange of information related to patient and QC test orders & results between IVD testing systems and health informatics systems.

Summary

The purpose of the LAW profile is to improve interoperability between IVD testing systems and health informatics systems by reducing complexity and variability in the exchange of information related to patient and QC test orders and to the result thereof. This profile is thus focused on the analytical workflow in the work area of a clinical laboratory. Its Transactions streamline the scheduling, performance and result reporting of Analytical Work Order Steps (AWOS) between IVD testing systems and healthcare IT systems (LIS or middlewares.

Benefits

The LAW profile represents a big step forward to meet the clinical laboratory’s need for stable interoperability of IVD analyzers, by providing IVD analyzer and software vendors with a reproducible and maintainable implementation framework.

Details

This LAW Profile covers the workflow of “Analytical Work Order Steps” (AWOS) between an Analyzer Manager application (e.g., a LAS or a LIS) and an Analyzer (an IVD device). This workflow handles the processing of IVD tests by the Analyzer, on specimen materials. Both patient and quality control (QC) specimens are in scope.

All specialties of clinical laboratories (including blood bank testing) are in scope.

Tests performed on the point of care by the ward staff or the patient are out of scope of this profile, and addressed by the LPOCT profile instead.

An AWOS is an analytical service to be performed by an analyzer on a specimen. The AWOS is ordered by means of a code representing this analytical service. The code may represent an elementary test (e.g., “measure the glucose level of the specimen”) or a panel of several elementary tests. In all cases the analytical service is expected to produce observations on the specimen that will be reported back by the Analyzer. The AWOS does not say how to perform the analytical service. The electromechanical handling of an analyzer is out of scope of this profile.

The use cases related to patient specimens are summarized on this diagram:

Systems Affected

In vitro diagnostic devices usually implement the Analyzer Actor of the profile. They obtain analytical work order steps (AWOS) related to a specimen-in-container and perform the requested tests and send back the results.
A middleware or a LIS may implement the Analyzer Manager Actor. It will provide the AWOS to the intended Analyzer and collect the results from those AWOS.

Actors & Transactions:

Specification

Profile Status: Trial Implementation

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last revision from October 2, 2012

Underlying Standards:

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-The LAW profile addresses the exchange of information related to patient and QC test orders & results between IVD testing systems and health informatics systems.
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+| '''This profile is part of the Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (PaLM) domain, which merged the former AP and LAB domains since 2016, January 4th.'''
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+The '''Laboratory Analytical Workflow (LAW) profile''' addresses the exchange of information related to patient and QC test orders & results between IVD testing systems and health informatics systems.
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 ==Benefits==
-''<List the key benefits the profile provides (e.g. error reduction, increased throughput) and how they come about (e.g. SWF reduces patient errors due to mistyped demographics at the modality by transfering demographics electronically from the Order Filler).  Consider using a bullet list for readability.  If possible, identify benefits that help users and vendors make the business case for the profile.  More specifically, which of Cost, Safety, Quality or Efficiency is improved by the use of this profile.>''
+The LAW profile represents a big step forward to meet the clinical laboratory’s need for stable interoperability of IVD analyzers, by providing IVD analyzer and software vendors with a reproducible and maintainable implementation framework.
 ==Details==
-''<A few paragraphs, if appropriate, providing more details (mostly in user-speak, not tech-speak) on what the profile does and how it works.>''
+This LAW Profile covers the workflow of “Analytical Work Order Steps” (AWOS) between an Analyzer Manager application (e.g., a LAS or a LIS) and an Analyzer (an IVD device). This workflow handles the processing of IVD tests by the Analyzer, on specimen materials. Both
+patient and quality control (QC) specimens are in scope.
-''<If the user might be familiar with the mechanisms used by the profile, you can mention them here.  E.g. Evidence Documents is based on DICOM Structured Report (SR) Templates.>''
+All specialties of clinical laboratories (including blood bank testing) are in scope.
+Tests performed on the point of care by the ward staff or the patient are out of scope of this profile, and addressed by the LPOCT profile instead.
+An AWOS is an analytical service to be performed by an analyzer on a specimen. The AWOS is ordered by means of a code representing this analytical service. The code may represent an elementary test (e.g., “measure the glucose level of the specimen”) or a panel of several
+elementary tests. In all cases the analytical service is expected to produce observations on the specimen that will be reported back by the Analyzer. The AWOS does not say how to perform the analytical service. The electromechanical handling of an analyzer is out of scope of this profile.
+The use cases related to patient specimens are summarized on this diagram:
+[[File:LAWUSECASES.jpg]]
-''<If the user might have an appreciation for the problems addressed in the profile, you can mention them here, but keep it short.  E.g. Mapping HL7 Order fields to DICOM Modality Worklist attributes can be inconsistent in the marketplace, so Scheduled Workflow provides vendors with more detailed instructions.>''
 ==Systems Affected==
-''<List (in user terms) the types of systems they might expect to have implemented actors from this profile, e.g. RIS, PACS, HIS, CAD Workstation, etc. and for each, how it would participate.>''
-* ''PACS systems may store, manage, and/or display Evidence Documents.''
+* In vitro diagnostic devices usually implement the Analyzer Actor of the profile. They obtain analytical work order steps (AWOS) related to a specimen-in-container and perform the requested tests and send back the results.
-* ''Display systems may query, retrieve and display Evidence Documents.''
+* A middleware or a LIS may implement the Analyzer Manager Actor. It will provide the AWOS to the intended Analyzer and collect the results from those AWOS.
-* ''Reporting workstations may retrieve, process and include details from Evidence Documents in reports
 '''Actors & Transactions:'''
-''<Insert an actor-transaction diagram, and or list of Content Definitions>''
+[[File:LAW_ActorsTransac.jpg]]
 ==Specification==
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 '''Underlying Standards:'''
-''<list all the standards on which the profile is based; if possible with links to sources>''
 :* [http://www.hl7.org HL7 2.5.1 + some pre-adopted features of 2.8 & 2.9]
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 [[Category:Profiles]]
+[[Category:PaLM Profile]]
+[[Category:HL7v2]]

Difference between revisions of "Laboratory Analytical Workflow Profile"

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