Task 6-Collaboration Workflow for Communication between users
Residents should have a way of communicating between themselves through a communication platform that has file-attachment capability.
Summary: A user may require a second opinion in regards to a report done after a study examination. The user should be able to attached the report through a chatting platform that would be available to residents all the time. The recipient should be able to click on the file attached and view the report as long as it comes from the primary user who had previously claimed and reported on the complete study. The system would be designed to support drag-through capabilities. This may be handled by a third-party chatting application integrated into the system.
Users: Must be radiologists (Trainees and Staff). Who cannot share “Draft or Preliminary” Reports: Technologists, Referring Physicians, PACS Administrators Steps
- During the process of reporting, the user starts the 3rd-party chatting application which would have been integrated with the reporting software.
- If the user would like to communicate with anyone on the network, the user can search in the user tab at the top of the chatting application.
- The user finds the name of the user (A fellow resident) and start conversation with them.
- If the user has a study opened, as soon as the user starts the chatting application and picks who they would like to converse with, a dialogue box should prompt the user if they would like to add the currents study to the chat page.
- If Yes: The study folder gets added with the link-enabled metadata information such as the patient information, Ordering Physician information, Technologist Information.
- If no: The study does not get added to the chat.
- If the user has reasons to communicate an issue with anyone on the network such as the Ordering Physician or the Technologist who ordered and carried out the procedure, they could send a message to them through the application.
Notes
• Verify that the user can search the name of any user in the organization
• Verify that the user can add notes to study sent to another user.
• Verify that the user can communicate with the Ordering Physician, patient, Technologist whose contact links are in the metadata of the study
• Verify that the application keeps track of the timing and the recipient of any message sent through the application (It could be used for any legal or audit purpose)