Creating a Lab Test

Junction provides a way to create your own lab tests. A lab test is a collection or pre-set of orderable markers. These are made up of:

One or more marker IDs or Provider IDs.
The collection method: testkit, walk_in_test, at_home_phlebotomy, or on_site_collection.

Once a Lab Test is created and approved, you can use it when making an order.

When you create a Lab Test, it is not immediately available. We need to validate and approve it on our side, before you can use it when making orders.

At-Home Phlebotomy Auto-Approval

This feature is in closed beta.Interested in this feature? Get in touch with your Customer Success Manager.

For eligible teams and labs, Junction evaluates an at_home_phlebotomy lab test when it is created. The lab test is created with a status of active and can be ordered immediately when:

Collection Instructions are available for every marker.
Every marker is enabled for à la carte ordering, if your team does not use a delegated flow.
The estimated draw is fewer than 15 tubes. An estimate of 15 tubes or more is rejected.

If an eligible at-home phlebotomy test does not meet one of these requirements, creation returns HTTP 400 and no lab test is created.

Example

To begin, make a request to our GET /v3/lab_tests/markers endpoint, in order to choose the markers you want to test for.

Get all markers

{
  "markers": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "name": "17-OH Progesterone LCMS",
      "slug": "17-oh-progesterone-lcms",
      "description": "17-OH Progesterone LCMS",
      "lab_id": 1,
      "provider_id": "070085",
      "type": null,
      "unit": null,
      "price": "N/A"
    },
    {
      "id": 2,
      "name": "ABO Grouping",
      "slug": "abo-grouping",
      "description": "ABO Grouping",
      "lab_id": 1,
      "provider_id": "006056",
      "type": null,
      "unit": null,
      "price": "N/A"
    }
  ],
  "total": 2,
  "page": 1,
  "size": 2
}

With this information, you can create a lab test using POST /v3/lab_tests. As an example, let’s say you wanted a test from Labcorp, with markers with provider IDs 006056 and 070085:

Create a new test

from junction import Junction, LabTestCollectionMethod
from junction.environment import JunctionEnvironment

client = Junction(
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY",
    environment=JunctionEnvironment.SANDBOX,
)

data = client.lab_tests.create(
    name="Example test",
    description="Example test",
    method=LabTestCollectionMethod.AT_HOME_PHLEBOTOMY,
    provider_ids=["006056", "070085"],  # or use the marker ids e.g marker_ids=[1, 2]
)

It is possible to create a test with either the marker id or provider id. Provider ids are the recommended way, since these are shared across environments. Not all labs provide these, so in their absence, use the marker id.

Once your lab test creation is successful you will receive the following response:

{
  "lab_test": {
    "name": "Example test",
    "description": "Example test",
    "sample_type": "serum",
    "method": "at_home_phlebotomy",
    "price": 10,
    "is_active": false,
    "status": "pending_approval",
    "lab": {
      "slug": "labcorp",
      "name": "LabCorp",
      "first_line_address": "123 Main St",
      "city": "San Francisco",
      "zipcode": "91789"
    },
    "markers": [
      {
        "name": "17-OH Progesterone LCMS",
        "slug": "17-oh-progesterone-lcms",
        "description": "17-OH Progesterone LCMS"
      },
      {
        "name": "ABO Grouping",
        "slug": "abo-grouping",
        "description": "ABO Grouping"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Note that status is set to pending_approval. You can verify when it changes to active by calling the lab tests endpoint. The is_active field is deprecated; use status instead.

Getting Started

Ordering Workflows

Walk-in (Patient Service Center) Orders

Mobile Phlebotomy Orders

At-Home Test Kit Orders

On-site Collection Orders

Results and Follow-up

Lab Report Parsing

Creating a Lab Test

At-Home Phlebotomy Auto-Approval

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​At-Home Phlebotomy Auto-Approval

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At-Home Phlebotomy Auto-Approval

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