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Reporting
Learn how to consult patient data, and work with reports to create your diagnosis.
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.
Formatting reports
Make the report visually appealing and more readable by applying formatting. You can highlight your text using bold, italic, underline, bullets and numbers, capitalization, and alignment.

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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.
  - Consulting patient data
    You can consult patient data in task lists as well as in a specific task.
  - Patient updates
    While viewing a study or performing a task, incoming HL7 messages, patient merge actions, and other events can trigger updates to the active patient that might affect patient care.
  - Reporting using online speech recognition
    Online speech recognition enables you to complete reports by speaking into a microphone connected to your system. The speech is converted to text.
  - Voice commands: Concepts
    Voice commands spoken into a dictation device can apply text formatting and punctuation, allow navigation, insert macros, and make corrections in an online speech recognition workflow.
  - Reporting using digital dictation
    Recording dictations for a transcriptionist enables you to complete reports by speaking into a microphone device connected to your system to create an audio file that is later transcribed.
  - Reporting using text entry
    As an alternative to digital dictation, you can complete reports by typing the individual report sections.
  - Inserting tables into reports
    You can insert one or more tables into a report section. Tables can also be included in text macros or auto-fill text.
  - Reporting on multiple studies
    You can group all relevant studies and report on all of them in a single report.
  - Adding image measurements to reports
    Highlight elements of the image by using various types of measurements. You can then add measurement details in a tabular format to the report or in-line in the report text.
  - Reporting on studies that failed verification
    If you have the permission, you can still report on a study that failed verification.
  - Copying content from previous reports
    You can reuse the content of a report created previously by copying it to your active report.
  - Formatting reports
    Make the report visually appealing and more readable by applying formatting. You can highlight your text using bold, italic, underline, bullets and numbers, capitalization, and alignment.
  - Setting report severity
    You can change report severity to none, normal, minor, major, or critical.
  - Consulting report versions
    Download and view all versions of a report.
- 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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Formatting reportsTopic number: 1425414959577

Make the report visually appealing and more readable by applying formatting. You can highlight your text using bold, italic, underline, bullets and numbers, capitalization, and alignment.

To format reports

If your text is already in the report sections, select the part you want to format and click the desired formatting in the toolbar.

Use voice commands to apply formatting as you dictate or use online speech recognition.

Note:

When you apply formatting using voice commands you can undo it manually by selecting the formatted text, and clicking the corresponding formatting tools above your report. In the same manner, you can undo the manually applied formatting using corresponding voice commands. You cannot undo formatting (yet) with the Undo tool (Ctrl + Z).

You have just formatted your report. Preview the printed version by clicking Preview in the toolbar.

Tip:

The report is also formatted by the report template. What will be shown in the preview is the result of applying the report template to the formatted report sections.