Task 1-Creating New Report
Users should be able to create a new radiology report.
Summary : This task assists the users to create a report for a radiology study. The final report can be available for patient and referring doctor to support diagnosis of the patient's illness . Various ways can be used to create a report - using voice dictation, templates and free-text typing.
Users : Must be radiologists (trainees and staff).
Who cannot create reports: Technologists , Referring doctors, PACS administrators
Steps:
- Login into the system (See login Procedure page)
- The user can view a reading list which include studies that are yet to be claimed or reported upon( Status="Completed")
- Claim a study to start reporting:
- If the study is currently being reported on by someone else - Notify the user that was reporting on it that it has been claimed by someone else.( This task is reserved for a Staff)
- If the study is already reported on and finalized - Inform user(must be a staff) and ask if they would like to add an addendum
- If the study has not being claimed , confirm that the user would like to go ahead and make a report on this study
- If the study is in Draft or Preliminary status - then open the reporting interface to display the existing report
- This action opens the text editor that supports reporting to be done (It is similar to one ‘Composing a New Email’) when claiming a report
Notes
- Verify that the reporting editor allows a user to create a report on the study:
- Verify that the reporting editor has functionality that allows a user to view the list of templates available that can be used to generate the report
- Verify that the editor supports voice dictation when available
- Verify that the editor provides a blank page that a user can type or pre-populate using template
- Verify that it supports multimedia integration of key images from the study e.g if a user selects a specific instance from the study viewer , he/she should be able to drag it to the editor to be incorporated into the report.
- Verify that only a staff has the right to claim any study that has been claimed before.
- Verify that a staff may not claim a study from another staff without confirmation from the primary user(staff)
- Verify that previous user(Staff) has to confirm relinquishing reporting authority to another user before user can resume reporting activity on an already-claimed study.
Once a user is happy with the report, then the user needs to exit the editor using the following options
- Can approve/Finalize a report(See Task 2)
- Can provide a preliminary report (See Task 3)
- Can Draft a report (See Task 4)
- Can Discard a report( See Task-5)