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Reporting
Learn how to consult patient data, and work with reports to create your diagnosis.
Checking spelling and grammar in reports
Check linguistic and grammatical correctness for report text that you have typed yourself.
Correcting spelling and grammar mistakes in reports
Check linguistic and grammatical correctness for report text that you have typed yourself.

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.
- 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.
  - Activating spelling and grammar check
    Activate spelling and grammar check using Tools > Options.
  - Correcting spelling and grammar mistakes 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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Correcting spelling and grammar mistakes in reportsTopic number: 1425415019212

Check linguistic and grammatical correctness for report text that you have typed yourself.

To correct spelling or grammar mistakes in reports

Right-click an underlined word.
Select a suggestion from the list.
The current occurrence of the mistake is replaced with the selected suggestion.
For some grammar mistakes no suggestions are available. The shortcut menu will then display a short description of the grammatical error. Hover over the short description to see a tooltip with a more extensive description.
Select Ignore in this report.
All occurrences in the current reporting session are no longer underlined. If you start a new task for this report or if you create a new report with the same mistakes, they will be underlined again.
Select Add to dictionary. If an unknown word contains at least one capital, you can choose to add the word to your dictionary all in lower case or with the same casing that was used in the report.
Unknown words are added to your personal dictionary. These words will no longer be underlined in your reports, for as long as you edit the reports yourself.

Note:

If your correctionist or a co-author edits your report, the same mistakes will again be underlined. To make your personal dictionary available to all users, contact your system administrator.