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Overview - Data Contracts

This implementation guide primarily focuses on the Diagnostic Workflow and how it integrates within the broader health data model, as illustrated in the diagram above.

• Patient Care and Patient Administration are typically found in NHS providers Electronic Patient Record systems
• Care Directory Service on the other hand, are centrally defined by NHS England, with supporting APIs also provided by NHS England (for example, the ODS API).

In software design, these areas are often referred to as domains. The Genomic Diagnostic Workflow operates across several of these domains — in software architecture terms, this is known as a bounded context.