This section lists the use cases for using catalogs of medical devices.

• LIVD IG A manufacturer of in vitro diagnostic devices shares with its customers its catalog of analyzers providing for each analyzer the suggested mappings of its proprietary test result codes to LOINC.
• A content vendor publishes the general catalog of medical devices authorized to a national market. Health care organizations of the country access this catalog in real time during their health care processes using medical devices, so as to retrieve all the details of the devices, and to trace their association to patients.