It is understood that the radiology department original three take film window, to take 2200 reports per day, now set up 32 additional self-service printers, the equivalent of 32 windows at the same time to take film, the efficiency of the work to improve nearly 10 times.
Chinese Medical University hospital film report self-service printer put into use examination results can be retained for half a year
Film report self-service printer put into use, completely changed the traditional medical imaging examination to the film window to pick up the film, pick up the report of the long queue of cumbersome, and at the same time reduces the intensity of the work of the medical workers, saves the patient waiting for time to pick up the film queue. And through the two-dimensional code recognition, greatly reducing the manual errors caused by patients with the same name, both to optimize the consultation process, to ensure medical safety, but also for the patient is so huge number of images for each examination, each image must be carefully observed, it can be imagined that the completion of the report is quite a lot of time. So the radiology department to pick up the report of the place can always be seen anxiously waiting for the figure.
We'll take a look at the process of radiology exams and see what the doctors are doing on the monitors in the diagnostic room, which patients don't usually have access to.
The workflow of radiology is like this:
Why is "film easy to get, but hard to find the report"? Take a look at the day-to-day life of a radiologist!
The patient takes the application form issued by the clinician, first registers in the radiology registration room, enters the information into the system, and then arranges for different examination rooms according to the different examination items.
After receiving the application form, the technician in the examination room will first check the patient's information, name, gender and age to see if it matches, and then introduce the examination precautions to the patient and assist the patient in making the appropriate preparations (e.g., DR and CT examinations need to expose as much as possible to the examination area and provide the necessary radiation protection for the non-examined area; magnetic **** vibration examinations need to take out all the ferromagnetic materials with them), and then set up a position to carry out the examination.
In our imaging department DR, CT, MRI and other examination data have been fully digitized, the end of the examination, by the technician on the image of the routine layout can print film. The time from the end of the examination to obtain the film is usually less than half an hour.
But why is it that patients usually get their films and reports after an hour, and even after 24 hours for CTA and MRI tests? This is mainly because it takes longer to write the report.
The part of a patient's journey from exam to film is usually routine, and a good portion of it is done by machines or computers, with fewer manual factors, so it's fast. But the doctor's report writing process is largely manual, and as we saw at the beginning, a patient can have hundreds to thousands of CT images.
Doctors retrieve the images and carefully observe each detail to understand the reason for the patient's visit, the history of the patient's information, whether the clinician has a special need to pay attention to the area, and when it is not clear, they have to ask the patient or the responsible doctor directly.