Managing late imagesTopic number: 1425415010805

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.

Late images complement a study that has already been or is being read. The situation happens rarely, and can occur because:

• Technical issues at the modality or post-processing station causes delays that can take up to several months to resolve.
• A technologist omits to send all images directly to the PACS, then corrects the action. In this case, images are normally delayed only a few minutes.

Indication of late images for studies without a validated report

As soon as late images are available for a study without a validated report, you are notified as follows:

If	Then	Action required
The task is in progress. For example, a reading task has been started or paused, then resumed. or Late images arrive for a study linked to the task currently in progress.	The message Late images available appears in the page title.	To reload images in the Image area and add late images to the Clinical sidebar, click Refresh. Review the images.
You start a task. For example, by clicking Start reading.	A task comment says that you must verify the report content.	Review the images in the Image area.

You can identify images that have not been viewed by the empty progress bar at the bottom of a series thumbnail on the Clinical sidebar.