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PenTips #105 – RIS Worklist Expanded Features
PenRad’s RIS/HIS worklist now facilitates additional filtering by a combination of date ranges, exam types, as well as two additional other customized categories. Also available is automatic selection of studies by bar-code accession number. Exam type study filtering automates the selection of exam type when creating an order within PenRad versus the RIS/HIS. The…
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PenTips #104 – Image Retrieval and Verification
PenRad offers various image management tools to automatically check multiple PACS for image availability including all breast exam types (digital or scanned). Facilitating: Studies to be flagged for scanning to add to PACS with a worklist for the film room Automatic retrieval and send to softcopy Review of images on any general purpose workstation…
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PenTips #103 – Scheduled Task Reminder and Notification
Continuing the tradition of PenRad’s focus on improved patient care, mammography workflow and imaging center economics, PenRad’s task reminder system allows a remember date to be assigned to an exam, note, patient, navigator and NCBC forms for follow-up. This system informs staff when an event is due or past-due. Reminder worksheets and worklists with…
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PenTips #102 – PeerReview System
PenRad’s PeerReview system supports the next generation of QA mandated regulations to assure maximum revenue. Simple to use during interpretation, the user may PeerReview a narrative report of images used for comparison, a well as the recording of level of concurrence. An exam can be PeerReviewed by multiple radiologists. The PR indicator indicates the exam is available for…
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PenTips #101 – Batch Printing Options
EXAM DISTRIBUTION RULES A newly added option in PenRad offers the ability to process exams for distribution by exam type(s) and results by various filters. Unlimited filter combinations are available based on exam type and BI-RADS® coding. For example: screening exams only, screening exams with BI-RADS 1/2, BI-RADS 4 route to navigator, diagnostic mammos, all…
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PenTips #100 – Expanded Worklist Features
PenRad’s MIS worklist has added features for filtering, sorting, color coding, radiologist assignment and AutoNext selection of exams. When My Exams is selected from the Filter By selector, only active and/or assigned exams are displayed for primary and/or additional reads. Assigning exams to a radiologist can be done in a batch mode or by…
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PenTips #99 – Risk and Density Assessment, Automated Ultrasound, Compass Update
RISK ASSESSMENT TOOLS With PenRad MIS, many clients use the built-in real-time risk assessment tools and the expanded risk assessment package integrated with Hughes RiskApps™ for qualifying patients into high risk screening programs for additional studies (i.e. breast MRI and BRCA testing). For many clients, utilization of the risk assessment tools has yielded a…
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PenTips #98 – Patient Density Notification Financial Incentives Interpretation Location
TISSUE DENSITY PATIENT NOTIFICATION Various clients have state laws that require notification to patients regarding their breast density. Connecticut already requires alternate imaging messaging when a patient’s mammogram indicates dense tissue. Texas recently passed “Henda’s Law” which will take effect September 1, 2011 that requires breast density to be communicated to patients. Other states…