Setting report severityTopic number: 1456314932750

You can change report severity to none, normal, minor, major, or critical.

Setting severity is useful to easily distinguish studies with positive findings from those with negative findings. For example, major report severity might indicate a study with positive results, which requires urgent follow-up.

The default report severity is None. You can change severity for preliminary reports (the reading task is completed) and validated reports (the sign-off task is completed).

This feature is disabled for studies that have no linked report created in Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging and for tasks related to studies without a report, as well as for studies and tasks linked to external reports.

Report severity is different from Task priority (STAT!, Urgent, High, Normal, Low).

To set report severity
  1. Do any of the following:
    • Open a study that has a report.
    • Open or start a task related to a study that has a report.
  2. In the Text area, do the following:
    • To change report severity for a report linked to an active study, on the Active studies tab, right-click a study. Then, click Report severity and select Normal, Minor, Major, or Critical.
    • To change report severity for a report linked to a comparison study, on the Comparison or All studies tab, right-click a study. Then, click Report severity and select Normal, Minor, Major, or Critical.

    Tip:

    You can also set the report severity on the Report tab. If the Report severity field is not available, add it by right-clicking anywhere on the Report tab and selecting Customize fields.

    To set the report severity from the Image area, click the patient banner, right-click a study in the active or comparison study list, click Report severity, and select a value.

    If you view a study or a task and change report severity, changes are applied immediately. If you start performing a task and change report severity, changes are applied after the task is completed.

    CAUTION!

    If you change the report severity after the report is signed off, to trigger an outbound message containing the correct report severity, complete one of the following options:
    • Undo sign off of the report, set the correct report severity, and sign off the report again.
    • Create an addendum, set the correct report severity, and sign off the addendum. To send out an addendum, your HL7 ORU outbound must be configured in the Administrator Desktop.

To configure the report severity column for lists in the List or Search area, do the following:

  • Right-click a list heading, and select Customize columns.
  • From Available columns list, select Report severity and click Move. Right arrow
  • Click OK.

To find reports with a specific severity level, in the Search area, from the Report severity search field, select a value and click Search.

If the Report severity field is not available, add it by right-clicking any search field and selecting Customize fields.

Required permissions:
  • Can access Search area
  • Can change report severity
(For more on permissions, see Security roles: Concepts.)