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Reporting
Learn how to consult patient data, and work with reports to create your diagnosis.
Completing reports
Complete your reports by sending them to a transcriptionist or correctionist, by requesting reviews, or simply by signing them off. You can also create report addendums and edit the already validated ones.
Signing off a report
Sign off a report to validate it.

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The Diagnostic Desktop combines the features of a RIS, PACS, and reporting program into a seamless, single program for medical imaging departments.
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Understanding Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging
Learn the basic concepts of Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging.
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.
- Reports: Concepts
  Reports contain one or more report sections, such as Findings and Conclusion. They can be in various statuses. They have contributors associated with them.
- Performing reading tasks
  Whether dictating with online speech recognition, digital dictation, or typing reports, you report on studies by way of reading tasks. A single reading task can contain one or more studies for which you create a single report.
- Creating a retake task
  While performing a reading task for a study with a completed acquisition task, you can create a retake task to request additional or higher quality images. Unless you specify otherwise, retake tasks are assigned according to the default task assignment rules.
- Supported reading workflows
  Standard reading workflows are supported: reading a study, creating one report for multiple studies, adding an addendum, and so on.
- Multi-author reading workflows: Concepts
  Multi-author reading workflows are organized to comply with legal requirements, professional guidelines, and common practices.
- Preparing to report
  Perform a few simple tasks to ensure a smooth reporting experience.
- Preparing for remote reporting
  When perform reading tasks from a remote location, the connection might have a bandwidth and latency that differs from that of the hospital network. Prepare the remote system to optimize performance.
- Creating reports
  To create reports, you can use different reporting methods. You can switch report structures, apply text macros, and apply formatting. While creating reports, you can consult patient data and comparison studies.
- Implementing text macros and normal reports
  Text macros, including normal reports, allow the report author to complete reports quickly and consistently by using a single command to insert report text.
- Completing reports
  Complete your reports by sending them to a transcriptionist or correctionist, by requesting reviews, or simply by signing them off. You can also create report addendums and edit the already validated ones.
  - Sending a report to a correctionist
    When have created your report, before sign-off you can send it to the correctionist.
  - Sending a report to a transcriptionist
    When you have created your report, before sign-off you can send it to a transcriptionist.
  - Sending a report for review
    Before signing off a report, you might want a second opinion.
  - Sending a report to a co-author
    Depending on your permissions, and on the context configured for the report you are working on, sending this report to a co-author will be mandatory or optional.
  - Sending a report back to a previous author
    If you disagree with the content provided by one of the co-authors of a report, you can send the report back to this co-author.
  - Reclaiming a report
    If a report has been sent to a correctionist or a transcriptionist, and the correction or transcription task is assigned or paused, but not yet in progress or completed, you can reclaim the report.
  - Sending reports to sign-off
    When sending a report or addendum to be signed off, you can optionally add a comment, change the priority, or specify the person to do the sign-off.
  - Creating report addenda
    Adjust a validated report by creating an addendum. You can do so after obtaining new information about the patient that modifies your diagnosis, such as new laboratory tests, images, or comments from requesting physician.
  - Reviewing reports
    Review reports created by your peers to provide them with feedback on diagnoses. You can perform reviews only if the report authors request it (by sending you the report to be reviewed).
  - Signing off a report
    Sign off a report to validate it.
  - Undoing report sign-off
    To edit and modify a validated report without having to create an addendum, undo the report sign-off. This resets the validated status of the report and starts a reading workflow again. You can do this for reports that you have signed off yourself or for reports signed off by other users.
  - Managing late images
    Late images are images held up at the modality for various reasons. They do not arrive into the PACS system in time for the reading. Late images can influence your report.
  - In Conflict reports
    Prior to Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging 8.1.2, reports could result in a status of In Conflict, indicating that a report is most likely incorrect because of an action performed on one of the studies linked to the report. As of Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging 8.1.2, the In conflict status is no longer applied.
- Previewing and distributing reports
  Review what you can do once you have created your report.
- Previewing reports in progress
  During reporting you can preview how reports look when distributed.
- Checking spelling and grammar in reports
  Check linguistic and grammatical correctness for report text that you have typed yourself.
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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Signing off a reportTopic number: 1425412309533

Sign off a report to validate it.

To sign off a report

In your To do list, look for sign-off tasks assigned to you.
Sign-off tasks are indicated with a pencil icon.
While performing a sign-off task, you can link and unlink studies from the report by selecting and clearing the checkboxes of studies.
To start the sign-off task, right-click this task and select Start sign-off.
Do one of the following:
- To validate the report, click Sign off.
- To validate the report and print it immediately, use the menu control and select Sign off and print.
  The report is sent to the default printer.
If, in a multi-author reading workflow, you are not the last author of the report, a warning message is displayed asking whether you want sign off the report instead of sending it to a co-author.

The report is now validated.

Note:

When you view a validated report, data in the fields that have been added to the report template by the administrator is taken from the values available at the time of report rendering. If the data is updated after the report was validated (for example, the patient name changed after marriage), you see the new data in the report.

Data in autofill data fields in report sections does not change, even if the values have changed in the system since report validation.

Required permission: Can sign off reports. (For more on permissions, see Security roles: Concepts.)

Required permission:

Can sign off reports
Can add and remove studies to and from a task