TY - JOUR
T1 - Implementing a Software Solution Across Multiple Ultrasound Vendors to Auto-fill Reports with Measurement Values
AU - Scheinfeld, Meir H.
AU - Kaplun, Oleg
AU - Simmons, Neville A.
AU - Sterman, Jonathan
AU - Goldberg-Stein, Shlomit
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2019/5/1
Y1 - 2019/5/1
N2 - Reliable transmission of ultrasound measurements into radiology reports is fraught with potential sources of error. In a conventional workflow, measurements are either written by hand on worksheets and/or dictated from worksheets or the images themselves into the radiology report. Valuable physician time is spent dictating, checking, and editing these values and this process is error-prone. Our approach was to use a transfer-software application to auto-populate measurements, with a goal of achieving >90% utilization rate by both technologists and radiologists. Implementation involved creating measurement fields for each measurement on each ultrasound unit of our multisite academic department. These fields were then mapped in both the transfer-software and the dictation software, to set up a 1:1:1 correspondence for each field. As a result, each measurement acquired by the technologist would automatically populate the radiology report within the dictation software. We created and mapped 128 fields for 39 exam templates. After implementation, technologist utilization rate was 86%-96% and overall radiologist utilization rate was 92%-93%. Radiology resident utilization rate was highest, at 95%-96%. We provide a guide for implementation and lessons learned.
AB - Reliable transmission of ultrasound measurements into radiology reports is fraught with potential sources of error. In a conventional workflow, measurements are either written by hand on worksheets and/or dictated from worksheets or the images themselves into the radiology report. Valuable physician time is spent dictating, checking, and editing these values and this process is error-prone. Our approach was to use a transfer-software application to auto-populate measurements, with a goal of achieving >90% utilization rate by both technologists and radiologists. Implementation involved creating measurement fields for each measurement on each ultrasound unit of our multisite academic department. These fields were then mapped in both the transfer-software and the dictation software, to set up a 1:1:1 correspondence for each field. As a result, each measurement acquired by the technologist would automatically populate the radiology report within the dictation software. We created and mapped 128 fields for 39 exam templates. After implementation, technologist utilization rate was 86%-96% and overall radiologist utilization rate was 92%-93%. Radiology resident utilization rate was highest, at 95%-96%. We provide a guide for implementation and lessons learned.
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U2 - 10.1067/j.cpradiol.2018.09.002
DO - 10.1067/j.cpradiol.2018.09.002
M3 - Review article
C2 - 30385132
AN - SCOPUS:85055493042
SN - 0363-0188
VL - 48
SP - 216
EP - 219
JO - Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology
JF - Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology
IS - 3
ER -