Explorer Screen Preferences

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Account

Preference

Definition

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Enable Explorer Quick Search

Select to display the Quick Search section in the left side of the Explorer window

True

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Enable Explorer Browse

Allows you to select which of the Browse filters to display to the users. Choose from the following:

Time Frame; Status; Site; Location; Radiologist; Ordering Provider; Modality; Anatomy; Section; Patient Age; Patient Class; Patient Gender; Priority; All; None

All

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Enable barcodes

Select to allow barcode scanning. Choose one of the following:

Enabled; Disabled; PowerMic II Only

NOTE: If you select PowerMic II Only, and the provider is using a PowerMic II, the barcode filter setting will not apply when manually typing into the accession field.

Disabled

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Barcode filter start position

The position of the first valid character in scanned data such as the MRN or accession number. Use this preference in conjunction with the Barcode filter end position to filter out control characters.

For example, if the scanned data contains one control character to the left of the actual MRN or accession number, enter 1 as the start position. Enter 0 if there are no leading control characters.

(You must also select Enable barcodes and Barcode filter.)

0

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Barcode filter end position

A zero-based (starts with zero, not one) index value that indicates the position of the last valid character in scanned data. Use this preference in conjunction with the Barcode filter start position to filter out control characters. For example, if the MRN is 10 characters long and there are no leading control characters, enter 9 (which actually indicates the tenth character, since this value is a zero-based). If the MRN is 10 characters long and there is one leading control character, enter 10 (which actually indicates the eleventh character position, to take into consideration the leading control character).

(You must also select Enable barcodes and Barcode filter.)

0

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Barcode filter

Allows the system to filter out control characters from barcode-scanned data. If you select this option, use the Barcode filter start position and Barcode filter end position to specify where the valid data begins and ends.

This option activates the Barcode Filter item in the PowerScribe 360 | Reporting client application’s Tools menu and the corresponding toolbar button.

False

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Patient identifier field

Select MRN, Dept number, or Both. The selection you make here configures the entire system to use the selected item as the identifier for patients. For example, if you select Both, the system uses the combined MRN and Department Number as the patient identifier.

MRN

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Allow quick signing

Allows the normally displayed prompt to be bypassed when signing from Explorer. (Applies only to Pending Signature reports; for example, an attending signing a resident’s reports).

Changed from a check box to three choices: Never; Always; Attending reports only.

Never

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Enable batch signing

Select this check box to allow attending providers to sign several reports at the same time.

False

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Accession number length

The length of an accession number, for sites that use a fixed number of characters/digits. It enables the Detect accession length in search box feature described below.

0

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Maximum Explorer search records

The number of records that can be retrieved from the database during a search. Select No Limit, 100, 200, 300, 400, 750, 1000, 2000, 3000, or 5000.

500

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Detect accession length in search box

If you select this option, when the user enters an accession number in the Quick Search area, the system automatically begins the search when it receives the correct number of digits. This preference is applicable only if you have set the Accession Number Length preference to a value greater than zero. Automatic detection is not used when the user is scanning bar codes.

False

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Show old resident drafts in My Reports

Allows attending radiologists to see (and sign) their residents' drafts when they click the Drafts link in the My Reports section. This option helps ensure that a report is not lost if the resident does not complete it in a timely fashion. Attending physicians can choose to show all resident drafts, or only those that are older than a certain number of hours.

Do not show

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Show resident corrected reports in My Reports

Select this check box to show reports that were corrected by a resident and returned to the attending provider in the provider’s My Reports list.

False

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Show subscribed worklists only

Determines whether the View “All” worklists option is available to the user.

False

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Display addenda above report

Controls whether addenda are displayed before the report body for previewed reports. (Previewed reports include the report preview at the bottom of the Explorer screen, as well as the report preview in all instances of the Prior Reports Control.)

True

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TAT Deadline Standard

Guidelines for the time frame in which a standard  report should be finalized.

For example, the deadline for TAT on a standard report is 60 minutes (TAT Deadline Standard); orders will appear with a yellow indicator 45 minutes before the TAT Deadline Standard time; and orders will appear with a red indicator 30 minutes before the TAT Deadline Standard time.

None

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TAT Red Alert Standard

None

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TAT Yellow Alert Standard

None

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TAT Deadline STAT

Guidelines for the time frame in which a STAT report should be finalized.

For example, the deadline for TAT on a STAT report is 30 minutes; orders will appear with a yellow indicator 15 minutes before the TAT Deadline STAT time; and orders will appear with a red indicator 10 minutes before the TAT Deadline STAT time.

None

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TAT Red Alert STAT

None

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TAT Yellow Alert STAT

None