Procedure is derived directly from HL7 and Canada Health Infoway: “An Act whose immediate and primary outcome (post-condition) is the alteration of the physical condition of the subject. … Procedure is but one among several types of clinical activities such as observation, substance- administrations, and communicative interactions … Procedure does not comprise all acts of [sic] whose intent is intervention or treatment.”17 A procedure may be a surgery or other type of physical manipulation of a person’s body in whole or in part for purposes of making observations and diagnoses or providing treatment
A statement that asserts the value of a property (observable) of the subject. The subject is often the patient, but may be a condition, a physical structure, or another clinical statement. For example, an interpretation is a finding about an observation.