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Consents

When you order a lab test through our API, you may have to collect consents from the patient and forward it to us. The following consents may include:
  • hipaa-authorization.
  • terms-of-use.
  • telehealth-informed-consent.

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Physician

As mentioned in the introduction, you don’t need to have your own Physician to place orders with Vital. When you order a test, you can pass an optional physician argument. If provided, the order will use your physician. If not, your order will go through with Vital’s physician network. For more information, please check our lab testing page and book an introductory call with us.

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Patient Name Validation

Patient names must conform to a specific regex pattern due to lab restrictions. This validation applies to all name fields including first_name and last_name. Regex Pattern: 
^([a-zA-Z0-9]{1})([a-zA-Z0-9-.,']*(\s[a-zA-Z0-9-.,']+)*[a-zA-Z0-9-.,']?)$
Validation Rules:
  • Must start with an alphanumeric character (not space, hyphen, or punctuation)
  • Only allows letters (a-z, A-Z), numbers (0-9), hyphens (-), periods (.), commas (,), apostrophes (’)
  • Spaces are only allowed between words
  • Cannot start or end with a space
  • Cannot have consecutive spaces
Valid Name Examples:
  • John
  • Mary-Jane
  • O'Connor
  • Dr. Smith
  • Jean-Pierre
Invalid Name Examples:
  • John (starts with space)
  • John (ends with space)
  • -John (starts with hyphen)
  • John@Smith (contains @)
  • José (contains accented character)

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Minors

Ordering for minors (under 18 years old) requires a specific configuration, which you can request with your Junction Customer Success Manager. Once enabled, you are able to order for a minor patient, by providing information regarding the medical proxy. This information can be supplied at ordering time, or at any time by updating the user demographics.