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PenTips #136 – Categorizing Teaching/Interesting Cases
Customers have asked us to expand our teaching and/or interesting case categories, plus provide a search tool and prefetch capabilities to bring these cases to the workstation for preview. We have created 18 pre-populated categories, including a “not specified” category, and added the ability for clients to add or retire them. Category assignment can…
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PenTips #135 – Administrative Reports by Custom Zones
A request was received from an enterprise user requesting the ability to expand administrative reports to zones where an individual zone incorporates data and statistics of various individual locations, and individual locations could be members of multiple zones, over and above the current options available in administrative reports that output by an individual location,…
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PenTips #134 – New email options, portal and distribution tips
Good news! In a recent FAQ from the FDA, the terms of delivery of mammography results no longer requires a hard copy when no response of email receipt is acknowledged, provided the facility has a policy. This should remove any reservations concerning email. Now sign patients up for email and save on printing, envelopes,…
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PenTips #133 – Expanded RIS Search Capabilities
Various users have asked if we could offer the ability to search the RIS worklist by patient name or MRN, over and above the current capabilities to search by accession number, day or range, or modality type. This would allow facilities to clean up old orders and cross check if a procedure was replaced…
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PenTips #132 – RIS Order Add, Change and Filter
PenRad has added a button to allow clients to change an order number, accession number, and/or exam type, for orders canceled through the facility’s RIS system after the exam has been imaged or read. To alter a RIS driven exam, select the exam with a single tap, then tap the Edit RIS button (1)…
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PenTips #131 – Additional Functional Bookmarks
PenRad has expanded bookmark functionality for email correspondence cover pages, and added library support to automatically import different variables into the narrative report. For example: Inserting date/time and referring physician name when documenting a conversation. Patient’s name and date of birth for JACO statements. Scheduling phone number, recall exam type and targeted next recall date…
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PenTips #130 – Custom Letters For Special Case
PenRad has the ability based on the administrative report, to export data plus patient and/or physician contact demographics directly into various file types as well as automatically generate mail and email correspondence besides recall, reminders and exam letters. Email requires the email system to be activated. For example; letters or emails can be created…
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PenTips #129 – Macro System
The macro system allows the ability to store and create unlimited custom macros by radiologist for all imaging and procedures exams, plus the ability to create abnormality macros. This expands default pre-select system. This feature eliminates the selection of individual specifiers for report generation to a single click for various abnormalities and procedure techniques,…
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PenTips #128 – NMD File Export and Preparation
For clients interested in submitting data to the ACR National Mammography Database (NMD), there needs to be some preparation besides an ACR account. To submit data itemized by physician versus facility, requires a National Provider Identifier (NPI) number entered initially into ID2 field on the radiologist maintenance screen. Note that the ID1 field is for…
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PenTips #127 – Data Elements for NMD, Gail and Tyrer-Cuzick risk models
Special notes *Download the complete data elements file at the bottom of this PenTip. Abbreviations – BC = Breast cancer, TC = Tyrer-Cuzick risk model, Gail = Gail risk model same as NCI model, NMD = National Mammogram Database, Bx = biopsy, Hx = history, HRT = Hormone replacement therapy, BMI = Body Mass Index.…