What is Diagnostics?

More often than not, we overlook the importance and role of diagnostics in health care. It runs behind the scene and so doesn’t get noticed. But just like the director of a play, the chef in a restaurant, or the stuntman in your favorite action movie, diagnostics is indispensable to healthcare.

Correct diagnosis is the first step to the right treatment. From the time the clinician orders the test, until the time the result is generated, there are a wide variety of processes that take place to generate a good result. To give an accurate, reliable, good quality report within a set standard of time and in a manner that gives some direction to the clinician for the patient’s treatment, is a complicated task.