Joint venture

The processes within the medical laboratories are already largely digitalized, as is the exchange of data within the hospital departments and the hospital laboratories. The contract laboratories also provide their results to the practices in reasonably standardized formats (HL7 V2) so that they can usually be integrated directly into the practice information systems. Order management can also often be carried out directly from the practice information systems, albeit with proprietary solutions.

L4CHLAB

The L4CHLAB project of the Swiss Personalized Health Network, in collaboration with the Swiss Association for Laboratory Medicine FAMH and several hospital and university laboratories, has created a dataset of the laboratory tests used.
The individual laboratory tests are defined by their LOINC code, the type of analyzer and the test kit used (data triplet). This should make it possible to identify laboratory results that were obtained under comparable conditions. Since certain laboratory results depend on which analyzers and test kits were used to obtain them, reliable comparability can be achieved, e.g. for research or for monitoring long-term progression. The project contains data sets for clinical chemistry, hematology and coagulation. Other specialties have yet to be developed.

QUALAB

The value set was developed by the laboratory project group and is updated annually. In addition to the LOINC code and specialty, it also contains the code of the Federal Analysis List.