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Learn how to consult patient data, and work with reports to create your diagnosis.
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.
Text macros: Concepts
Text macros consist of text that can be reused in different reports.

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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.
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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.
  - Text macros: Concepts
    Text macros consist of text that can be reused in different reports.
  - Inserting text macros in reports
    Insert predefined text from a text macro into a report from a catalog of available text macros. By using a text macro, you fill information into reports more efficiently and increase consistency.
  - Undoing insertion of text macros
    Remove a text macro or normal report using the Undo command if you decide not to use the macro, providing you have made no other changes to the report.
  - Inserting normal reports
    Insert the predefined report text for one particular procedure, for which no pathology or abnormalities are found, by inserting the normal report. There can be only one normal report per procedure.
  - Creating a text macro
    A text macro is predefined text that can be inserted in different reports using a command or keyboard shortcut. Text macros can be created from reports in progress and in the Administrator Desktop.
  - Creating a normal report
    A normal report is a special type of text macro. When no pathology or abnormalities are found, radiologists can write their report with one keystroke (F9) or one voice command (Normal report). They can still edit the text before signing off.
  - Editing a text macro
    Existing text macros can be edited as required.
  - Inserting fields into a text macro
    A text macro is predefined text that can be inserted in different reports using a command or keyboard shortcut. As part of a text macro, you can include fill-in fields, lists, database data, DICOM data, and current date and time.
  - Deleting a text macro
    If a text macro is no longer required, you can delete it.
- 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.
- 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
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Learning and improvement
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Scheduling events in the Calendar
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Radiation management
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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
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Maintaining security and access
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Text macros: ConceptsTopic number: 1425414263633

Text macros consist of text that can be reused in different reports.

Usage of text macros

They can be used for a specific modality type, body part, a combination of both, or a procedure definition. They can be used by a specific user, a group of users (task assignment group), or by everybody.

Using text macros when creating a report users save time because they can insert text with only one command instead of typing or dictating the text.

Text macros can be defined by users or the administrator:

Users can create, edit, or delete only their personal text macros.

The report authors can use and search for their personal text macros and those that are linked to their task assignment groups and System.

Note:

In the Medical Secretary Desktop, users can also use and search for text macros used by the report author or the task assignment groups the author belongs to. In a multi-author reporting workflow, the last author’s text macro and those of all report authors’ task assignment groups are available.

The administrator can import, create, modify, duplicate, and delete text macros.

Types of macros

Three types of macros are available:

Reports: Use this type of macro to complete an entire report. For each procedure definition you can define one normal report that can be used when no pathology or abnormalities are found.
Report section: Use this type of macro to complete a section in a report.
Text: Use this type of macro to insert a block of text where the cursor is.

Normal reports

A normal report is a special kind of text macro. It is a predefined report for one particular procedure for which no pathology or abnormalities are found. Each procedure can have only one normal report.

By using a normal report, report creators can create their report with one command instead of having to type or dictate the text.

A normal report spans the entire report structure.

Text macro fields

Text macro fields are placeholders in a text macro or normal report that are manually or automatically replaced by a specific value when the text macro is used in a report. The types of fields available are fill-in, drop-down list, database, DICOM, current date, and current time.