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Learn how to consult patient data, and work with reports to create your diagnosis.
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.

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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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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.
  - Downloading images manually
    If using My selection or other lists that do not have automatic image download enabled, you can manually download images in advance of performing reading tasks from home or from another remote location. Once in your local cache, images are displayed faster.
  - Downloading images automatically
    Unless you are using shared worklists, we recommend that you download the images before performing reading tasks from remote locations.
  - Setting Image area display options for remote reporting
    To optimize performance for remote reporting, set the Image area display options to display the current study as lossless, and comparison studies as lossy.
- 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.
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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Preparing for remote reportingTopic number: 1519995338584

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.

To prepare for remote reporting

Tip:

Before working remotely, check with your administrator if automatic image retrieval is enabled for your workstation group.

If working from a new remote location, proceed as follows.
1. From the location, test the connection speed.
2. Inform your administrator.
  
  If not done already, your administrator will assign your workstation to the workstation group configured for remote reporting.
Set the Image area display options for remote reporting

Download the images you need. Do one of the following:

Start the tasks or task lists you intend to work on.

Ask your administrator to configure dedicated task lists for remote reporting.

With Automatic image download, if configured for your workstation group enabled.

See Downloading images automatically.

Note:

Currently, you cannot enable automatic image download for the My selection list. This is planned for a future release of Enterprise Imaging.

However, you can select items in the My selection list, and download these manually.

That is configured to collect tasks or study assigned to the login user.
This prevents bandwidth from being wasted if someone else is likely to claim the task.
If working in shared task lists, users attempting to claim tasks assigned to you are notified.

Download images manually.