- Quality control: Concepts
Quality control is a process of aligning the patient order information with the images that come from different sources. It also includes reassigning or deleting studies for billing and cleanup purposes.
- Creating a QC task
Create a QC task to assign a quality control task for the selected study or studies to yourself or to another person.
- Starting a QC task
You can start a QC task from a task list (To do list), from a list of search results, or from the Text area.
- Fixing or merging a study
Manually fixing studies aligns patient and order information with unverified images. Merging images assembles multiple studies that belong to one patient.
- Splitting a study
Split a study that contains images belonging to multiple patients, orders, or procedures. This requires moving some of the images to other orders or procedures.
- Segmenting a study
Images from one patient can be segmented into multiple procedures for the same patient. Segmenting is often needed in sectional imaging to reduce the exposure of the patient to radiation, and for billing and reporting purposes.
- Deleting studies
Delete a study if, for example, its images are low-quality and have to be re-sent from the modality.
- Protecting a study
If a study is of particular interest, you can protect it against deletion.
- Verifying a report
If late images arrive for a study with a validated report or a quality control operation is performed for this study, a verify report task is created. Check the report to ensure that it is still valid.
