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Things to Watch Out For

Draft Reports:

·         Residents: Once you review your report with the attending and make any suggested corrections, save it as Preliminary to send it to the Attending’s signature queue.

·         You will not be able to save as Preliminary unless a responsible provider is assigned to the exam.

·         Remember to check your Draft list for exams you may have missed.

 

Associate Reports:

Please remember to associate the accessions for the reports that you are reading. Otherwise,

·         They may be read twice.  Or

·         They end up on the un-read reports list and must be fixed on the backend which delays billing and is very resource intensive.

 

"Support Service" Radiologist:

Residents:  use the "Support Service" (virtual attending) when you do not know who the correct attending is.  Remove this when you assign the correct attending.

 

Attendings:
When you sign reports, make sure there is no other unnecessary Attending, including "Support Services".  If there is and you don't remove it, you will have to sign the report again after the extaneous Attending is removed from the report.  

The report will not finalize until all listed Attendings sign it.

 

BODY, MSK, NEURO Modifiers:

If you have an exam on your worklist that should be read by a different group, you can assign a modifier for that group by going to tools, then select enter edit, then enter the appropriate group (MSK, BODY,NEURO…) in the first available modifier field, and save.  It will now appear on the other team’s worklist.

 

Don't Compare the RIS and PACS worklists:

PACS is updated by the RIS worklist (not visa versa).  The RIS worklist is the database of record and controls billing and report routing.  If things are out of synch, it's the RIS list you need to pay attention to.  

The same is true of reports.  For example: A preliminary report can be in RIS, but held up due to edits; and NOT flow into PACS until they are cleared.

 

Pay Attention to Report Status:

It is an important piece of information.

 

Don't clobber your RAM:

Leaving multiple studies open in PACS eats up RAM.  Remember: one CT exam can be over 500MB in size.  That's one eighth of your total RAM.