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Understanding Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging
Learn the basic concepts of Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging.
Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging: Key concepts
The key concepts for understanding Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging include tasks, workflow, and hanging protocols.

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Understanding Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging
Learn the basic concepts of Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging.
- What is Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging?
  Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging combines all information, image viewing, speech recognition, and transcription features into a seamless, single application based on the workflow of a medical imaging department.
- Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging: Key concepts
  The key concepts for understanding Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging include tasks, workflow, and hanging protocols.
- Collaborator: Frequently asked questions
  Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging Collaborator is an instant messaging communication tool that appears by default on all desktops to facilitate text messaging and information sharing between patients, hospital staff, and family doctors.
- Working through lists
  Learn how to start, pause, complete, and cancel task; navigate through tasks or studies; filter lists, and set priorities by following typical actions such as filtering, prioritizing, and starting tasks.
Organizing your work
Complete your work with tasks, optimize your workflow, and communicate with others who work on tasks.
Consulting studies
You can consult studies and compare them to the active ones.
Processing orders
Order information provides procedural details relating to images being taken.
Printing procedures and study labels
You can print selected procedures as well as the study label with a barcode.
Working with procedure plans
View, modify, and switch procedure plans.
Managing attachments
Use attachments to collect and communicate additional information about the patient, study, order, report, or procedure.
Reporting
Learn how to consult patient data, and work with reports to create your diagnosis.
Reading images
To view and analyze images, use the Image area tools.
Learning and improvement
Peer learning workflows and teaching files can be used within Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging.
Scheduling events in the Calendar
Review scheduled procedures and conference sessions in the Calendar.
Radiation management
You can keep track of the total amount of radiation a patient has received.
Performing quality control
Quality control is a process of aligning the data about patients with their images, which come from different sources. Quality control is an automatic step in the unverified study workflow, but it can also be performed manually.
Accessing desktop integrations from client desktops
You can access and use third-party applications that are integrated with Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging from client desktops.
Finding studies
To find studies, use either the simple or the advanced search interface.
Customizing the desktop look and feel options
Define Collaborator, list, and search options at the user, desktop, or system level.
Maintaining security and access
In Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging, sets of access-controlled features are combined into permission sets. One or more permission sets are included security roles. Security roles are assigned to users.
Troubleshooting: Log files and known limitations
Use system log files supplied with Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging for basic troubleshooting.
Keyboard shortcuts
Use the keyboard shortcuts for quick access to your everyday tasks.
Testing the connection speed
Your administrator might ask you to communicate the bandwidth and latency values to optimize the configuration for your workstation in Administrator desktop.
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Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging: Key conceptsTopic number: 1425411626062

The key concepts for understanding Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging include tasks, workflow, and hanging protocols.

Combined information system, PACS, and speech recognition

Enterprise Imaging combines all of the traditional components of a medical imaging department system into one program and provides information system features, such as:

Procedure catalog management. Through Enterprise Imaging desktops, manage the procedure definition for your department.
Organizational elements. Import and configure all information about hospital departments, specialties, physicians, resources, and so on; then, use this information to control workflow.

Image management and viewing, as well as reporting, all occur within Enterprise Imaging desktops as part of a seamless workflow.

Tasks

Tasks represent the work to do. A single study can have multiple tasks, such as quality control, dictating, and report signoff. Tasks can be paused, assigned, or canceled. Escalation rules can be configured to automatically track all paused or assigned tasks, ensuring that they are completed in a timely fashion. All tasks fit within workflows that are designed for your department.

Workflow

Enterprise Imaging includes all workflow steps in one program. These include:

Dictation > Edit > Sign-Off
Dictation > Transcription > Review > Sign-Off
Select > Review > Dictate > Edit > Sign-Off

For example, after a study is acquired, a reading task is generated according to the workflow design. A radiologist starts this task and moves through the dictation creation, edit, and sign-off portions of the workflow.

Hanging protocols

Enterprise Imaging desktops use hanging protocols to control how images are displayed. You can define simple and complex hanging protocols to display the active study and its comparison studies for interpretation automatically. Hanging protocols can:

Control where and how the images are displayed on-screen, including whether the images are rendered as rotated, with specific window levels; or rendered as MPR, 3D, MIP; and so on
Be defined on a system or user level
Be associated with a modality, modality and body part, or a procedure code
Have multiple presentation groups, so that a single hanging protocol can provide different views of the active and comparison studies