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Reporting
Learn how to consult patient data, and work with reports to create your diagnosis.
Preparing to report
Perform a few simple tasks to ensure a smooth reporting experience.
Setting up and using a speech microphone
Set up and configure your microphone to start using speech recognition and online dictation for reporting.

Diagnostic Desktop Help
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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The Diagnostic Desktop is a single point of entry for all information, image viewing, and speech recognition features related to medical imaging.
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.
  - Setting up and using a speech microphone
    Set up and configure your microphone to start using speech recognition and online dictation for reporting.
  - Adjusting audio settings
    Open the Audio Wizard to detect the audio settings such as playback volume, recording volume, and silence detection level. These adjustments improve speech recognition and sound quality.
  - How to dictate and correct reports
    Speak clearly but in a natural way. Avoid hesitations and unnatural pauses.
  - Training speech recognition
    Perform a few simple steps to create your personal speech profile before reporting with voice recognition. This results in improved accuracy of recognition.
  - Improving speech recognition accuracy
    Improve the accuracy of speech recognition by using the Speech Accuracy Trainer to train the system to avoid wrong recognition of the same word, remove unwanted words, and provide a phonetic description for repeating errors.
  - Inserting drop-down lists
    Insert drop-down lists into text macros and normal reports as needed. They enable you to select options from a list when reporting.
  - Scanning barcodes with a SpeechMike to insert patient data automatically
    Instead of typing the patient ID or accession number in search fields or report sections, scan a barcode with your SpeechMike to have the scanned information inserted automatically.
- 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.
- 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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Setting up and using a speech microphoneTopic number: 1425414919214

Set up and configure your microphone to start using speech recognition and online dictation for reporting.

Prerequisite

Ensure your speech microphone is connected.
Make sure that your workstation is not close to a source of any background noise.
Contact your administrator to confirm you are a recognized speech user.

To use your microphone in a correct way

Hold the microphone at a constant distance from your mouth. In a quiet environment - 10 cm/4 inches. In a noisy one reduce it to 5 cm/2 inches.
Hold the microphone in a comfortable manner, and avoid any scratching or rubbing motions that could affect the recognition results.
Avoid heavy breathing noise by positioning the microphone below or to the side of your mouth instead of directly in front of it.
When dictating to a microphone on the table, watch out for any surface vibrations that can be conducted to the microphone and which can affect recognition results.