Report Editing Preferences

The table below shows the available settings for each of the items on the Report Editing preferences tab. Select the items you want to apply. The default value for each item is shown at the right of the tab.

 

System

Account

Preference

Definition

Default

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Default font face

Specifies the font typeface to use when viewing and editing reports.

Arial

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Default font size

Specifies the font size to use when viewing and editing reports.

12

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Start with default AutoText

If you select this option, if an AutoText entry has been designated as the default for a particular type of exam, the AutoText is automatically inserted when a provider creates a new report for an exam of that type.

True

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Move cursor on AutoText insert

This specifies where the cursor is placed after the user inserts AutoText.

Select an option:

  • End of AutoText: Cursor moves to the right of the AutoText

  • First empty field: Cursor moves to the first empty field in the document.

  • First field: Cursor moves to the first field in the document.

End of AutoText

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Automatic AutoText categorization

Allows automatic inclusion of procedures to an AutoText that is inserted into a report. The choices for this preference are:

  • Always: Procedures for the orders associated with the report are automatically added to  any/all AutoText inserted into the report.

  • Prompt: User  is prompted to accept the automatic categorization.

  • Disabled: No automatic categorization occurs.

Disabled

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Fill-in field navigation

Select the status of fields to which your Tab button/key navigates. This allows you to skip fill-in fields that already have content.

Choices are:

  • All

  • Empty

  • None

  • Unmodified (meaning it still contains its default value)

All

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Merge field navigation

Select the status of fields to which your Tab button/key navigates. This allows you to skip merge fields that already have content.

Choices are:

  • All

  • Empty

  • None

  • Unmodified (meaning it still contains its default value)

Empty

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Cursor position on field selection

Select where to position the cursor in a field that you select or move to.

Choices are:

  • Text is selected

  • Cursor at the end

  • Cursor at the beginning

Text is selected

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Monitor order data changes during reporting

Notifies users if the order data has changed while they are dictating a report. Choices are:

  • Notify and apply changes

  • Apply changes without notification

  • Disabled

Notify and apply changes

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Warn if open orders when signing

Controls whether the system warns radiologists signing (or residents approving) a report when there are unreported orders for the patient that are not filtered by the Open orders property match and Open orders maximum age preferences. The radiologist or resident might want to add one or more of the open orders to the report before signing or approving it.

Note that the warning applies only to the Open Orders that are displayed when the report is first opened.

True

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Open orders property match

Show (in the Report Editor Order Data tab) only orders that match the selected properties of the order(s) in the current report. Choices include Modality, Location, Section, and others.

None

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Open orders maximum age

Do not display (in the Report Editor Order Data tab) orders older than this value. Select a number of hours or days from the drop-down list.

(Relative to the age of the order for the current report, or the oldest order if there are multiple orders in the current report.)

10 days

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Enable Assure consistency check types

Choose any or all of the consistency checks. Choices are:

  • Critical Test Results

  • Gender Mismatches

  • Laterality Mismatches

  • All

All

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PowerShare image viewer

Select either Basic or Advanced.

 

NOTE: PowerShare is a purchasable option. Contact your Nuance sales representative for more information.

Basic

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Show brackets on fields

Place square brackets around all fill-in fields. This feature does not cause actual bracket characters to be inserted in the text.

False

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Enable talking fields

If you select this option, the name of the field is spoken out loud when a user takes one of the following actions:

  • Moves the cursor into a field

  • Selects it in the field pane

  • Navigates into it using the microphone buttons or Tab key

NOTE: Talking Fields requires that Dragon Text-To-Speech (TTS) be installed on the user's workstation. Note that field names are not spoken while the dictation mode is active.

False

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Highlight text on playback

Each section of the report text is highlighted on the screen as the audio is played back.

False

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Add unmatched findings to report

Applies to Findings Only dictation mode in the PowerScribe 360 | Reporting client application. When the user clicks Apply Findings, the software creates a new item in the field pane for each unmatched finding. The fields are named *Unmatched1, *Unmatched2, and so on. If you do not select this option, any unmatched findings remain in the Findings Only window.

False

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Restrict diagnosis codes by exam type

The list of ICD9 codes is restricted to those that are appropriate for the exam.

NOTE: This behavior is controlled through a check box in the Diagnosis Coding dialog box.

False

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Automatically load PACS studies

If you select this option and a "master" PACS integration is configured, as soon as a report is opened in PowerScribe 360 | Reporting the corresponding study is automatically opened in the PACS selected for the site.

False

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Focus application on PACS launch

If you select this option and a "slave" PACS integration is configured, PowerScribe 360 | Reporting is brought to the front of all applications and activated when a dictation request is received from the PACS.

NOTE: This function works only with some PACS systems.

True

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Discard unedited new report on PACS close

Allows you to delete a report that contains an AutoText template without being prompted, minimizing your interruptions.

False

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Set application window always on top

This preference keeps the PowerScribe 360 | Reporting application the top application in an environment with multiple applications present, and prevents you from having to switch between applications during the session.

False

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Enable background report saving

If you select this option, the user, on closing a report, is taken immediately back to the Explorer window (or to the next report, in AutoFeed mode) while the report is being saved to the database. You can de-select this option for users who want to see the save operation completed before beginning new work.

True

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Enable AutoFeed polling

 

Determines whether the system automatically looks for new reports when the AutoFeed queue is empty.

 

False

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Enable clinical guidance alerts.

Select this check box to alert the user that there is a clinical guideline that covers the finding(s) that he or she documented in their report. This gives the user the opportunity to review the guideline and use it for recommendations.

True