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| Oh dear, the response to my post wasn't exactly overwhelming - but I am keen to know if the absence of an image or diagram by the requestor as part of the clinical history in a Radiology Request is an important issue in the imminent world of Order Comms. Is there anyone out there who feels strongly about this? |
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| Peter. My experience is that the inability to annotate a clinical diagram= as part of an OCS request makes it unusable for breast imaging. We tried= asking them to make an OCS request and provide a diagram that we could s= can into RIS; this was deemed a clinical risk as we might attach the wron= g image to the wrong request. When we pointed out that if they continued = to use hand-written forms we had to transcribe their request into OCS any= way they were equally horrifed. At our last meeting their favourite optio= n was to abandon RIS/PACS altogether (this is not as daft as it sounds be= cause breast screening does not use RIS/PACS and is excluded form the Nat= ional programme). Similar problems might also affect cardiac imaging but = I have no experience of this as they rejected the whole concept of OCS/RI= S/PACS out-of-hand and procured their own systems. Given the rigid, infle= xible approach that the National progamme has taken so far I am reluctant= to sanction the development work on our existing OCS as it is inevitable= that this functionality will be taken away when we move to the new syste= m. Anybody out there got any ideas? =20 |
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| I agree about diagrams for breast requests. Other requests would be OK. In this electronic era, any reasonable OCS should be able to provide you a picture which can be annotated, and that should be able to be sent to RIS. |
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| I agree about diagrams for breast imaging requests. Other radiology requests would be OK. In this electronic era, any reasonable OCS should be able to provide you a picture which can be annotated, and that should be able to be sent to RIS |
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| Can any of them provide image annotation? Wouldnt such image transfer between OCS and RIS have to be based on propriety software/protocols/whatever that the RIS wouldnt understand? |
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