Release 8.1.2: New in Diagnostic DesktopTopic number: 1496927311783
The following features are new in Diagnostic Desktop for Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging release 8.1.2.
Adding or editing billing codes and products
If only professional billing has been configured by your administrator, you can now add and edit billing codes, modifiers, and used products and their values and units during reporting tasks. Previously, this was only allowed during acquisition tasks. If technical billing is configured then it is not possible to change the billing codes after acquisition.
See Adding or modifying billing codes and modifiers and Registering and adding products.
Attachments
If configured by your administrator, you can use order, study, and patient attachments of the keyword, text (field only, not for message board), and hyperlink type in report sections and include them in text macros. Additionally, the administrator can add attachments of the listed types to report templates so that they are visible in a report when it is printed.
See Attachments: Concepts and Inserting fields into a text macro.
Auto-suggest box for keywords
For keywords for patient, order, study, and report level, the option to replace the drop-down list with an auto-suggest box is now available. The box allows users to find a specific value within a long list of keywords by typing the keyword rather than searching through the list. Contact Agfa Professional Services to change the drop-down list to an auto-suggest box.
Conferences
- When configuring a conference, you can select a task assignment group as presenter, administrator, and participant.
- In the study history, you can view
during which session the study was
discussed.
See Performing a discussion task.
Export
You can save search results and activities overview lists as a .csv file to your workstation to edit them before printing them out or to manipulate the data for statistical and auditing purposes.
Image area
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In the Image area context menu, a small dot is now displayed in front of the presentation state that is currently selected.
See Presentation states.
- A new option has been added to the Image area context menu to enable and disable ECG overlays when viewing XA images. You can now move and resize ECG overlays.
- Hanging protocols for XA exams now allow Enterprise Imaging to split a study by series instance UID instead of by instance UID. Each multi-frame instance is sorted into its own separate series.
- For mammography hanging protocols, images that do not meet the criteria for any of the presentation groups in that protocol are now assigned to a group called Others.
- For procedures with multiple modalities, Agfa can now define the primary modality at installation. The primary modality determines the initial hanging protocol when viewing images.
- Additional criteria is now available when sorting series in the Clinical sidebar. When sorting by series description, the following matching operators have been added: Does not contain, Is not, Does not start with, and Does not end with.
- Studies can now also be registered using an ad hoc registration tool or by applying the 3D Sync feature on datasets with different frame of references. Registrations can also be modified or deleted. See Registering comparison studies by using the ad hoc registration tool and 3D synchronization.
- The segmentation panel of the Clinical sidebar has been extended to include additional tools. These tools enable you to define structures that need to be measured or hidden to visually enhance specific parts within a volume. See Volume segmentation.
Language support
- Online help for the Diagnostic Desktop, Acquisition Desktop, Medical Secretary Desktop, Clinician Desktop, and mobile applications is now available in German.
List area
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If the number of items in your task or study list exceeds the maximum number of results, you can navigate from the List area to the Advanced search page by clicking the Refine your search link. On the Advanced search page, you can apply more search criteria and display fewer results. You can show up to 2000 items in a list. Previously, you could show up to 1000. The maximum number of results between 1000 and 2000 is configured by your administrator.
See List area: Take a tour and Finding studies or tasks using advanced search.
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You can now configure the Patient arrival date/time, Patient arrival time, and Order priority (text) columns.
- The following options are available when
opening a task, and starting a list or a task. The most suitable hanging protocol is
applied automatically, based on whether you choose to display active study images,
comparison study images, or both:
- Display active images/add comparison images to clinical sidebar—Displays active study images, and adds comparison studies to the clinical sidebar, but does not display these.
- Display active images—Displays only active study images.
- Compare active/comparison study—Displays both active and comparison study images.
- Text only—Displays text without images.
By default, the display mode is set to Display active images. However, using the Options dialog, you can set any of the other display modes as the default.
See Opening tasks, Setting List area options, and Starting tasks, task lists, and collections
Options
- You can configure only studies that were not canceled and are included in the same order as the active study to be automatically added to a reading task, even if not all images have arrived for them and they do not yet have a reading task assigned.
You can color rows in the List area based on the new criteria:
- Waiting time since scheduled date/time
- Waiting time since patient arrived
- Job title for the first author
- Report available
- Procedure status
- Current patient type
- Patient type at acquisition
- Current patient location
- Task type (including all subtask types)
Search area
- You can find patient records by patient ID issuer (domain) using the domain-related patient ID search fields, for example, Patient ID (patient_ID_issuer). For configuration of the fields, contact your administrator.
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The new criterion Images available with values Yes, No, and Empty is available. This criterion can be used to find studies without images that are not linked to a report, or studies with images that do not have a report or reading task linked.
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You can now configure the Patient arrival date/time, Patient arrival time, and Order priority (text) columns.
Text area layouts
When selecting , the Text area layout reverts to the default layout on either the desktop profile level or system level for the current context, as configured by your administrator.
TOMTEC integration
TOMTEC Image-Com and TOMTEC Reporting have now been upgraded to the latest version, 2.2.1.
After upgrading, when inserting a text macro that was configured before the upgrade into a report, check for missing values. If values are missing, select the values and save the macro again.
Verify report tasks and In conflict reports
The In conflict status is no longer used for reports. If the In Conflict status has been assigned to a report prior to Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging 8.1.2, the report status is kept after the upgrade. You can find and process the In Conflict reports in the usual way.
Verify that report tasks are now created only for studies with a validated report if late images have arrived or a QC operation has been performed for this study. For studies with a not validated report, a task comment appears, instructing you to verify the report content. The task type remains the same.
See Verifying a report, Reports: Concepts, Tasks: Type, priority, and status, Fixing or merging a study, Deleting studies, Splitting a study, Segmenting a study, In Conflict reports, and Managing late images.