Impact of digital radiography on clinical workflow
| Autor: | Doreen Dackiewicz, David D. Deer, Gerald A. May |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Patient throughput Modality (human–computer interaction) Radiological and Ultrasound Technology business.industry Patient demographics Computer Science Applications Radiographic Image Enhancement DICOM Appointments and Schedules Workflow Radiology Information Systems Task Performance and Analysis medicine Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Medical physics Computed radiography SESSION 2B: Evaluation of System Components business Digital radiography Medical systems |
| Popis: | It is commonly accepted that digital radiography (DR) improves workflow and patient throughput compared with traditional film radiography or computed radiography (CR). DR eliminates the film development step and the time to acquire the image from a CR reader. In addition, the wide dynamic range of DR is such that the technologist can perform the quality-control (QC) step directly at the modality in a few seconds, rather than having to transport the newly acquired image to a centralized QC station for review. Furthermore, additional workflow efficiencies can be achieved with DR by employing tight radiology information system (RIS) integration. In the DR imaging environment, this provides for patient demographic information to be automatically downloaded from the RIS to populate the DR Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) image header. To learn more about this workflow efficiency improvement, we performed a comparative study of workflow steps under three different conditions: traditional film/screen x-ray, DR without RIS integration (ie, manual entry of patient demographics), and DR with RIS integration. This study was performed at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Cleveland, OH) using a newly acquired amorphous silicon flat-panel DR system from Canon Medical Systems (Irvine, CA). Our data show that DR without RIS results in substantial workflow savings over traditional film/screen practice. There is an additional 30% reduction in total examination time using DR with RIS integration. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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