Roles

To understand how to create administrators, radiologists, and other users in PowerScribe 360 | Reporting , you need to be familiar with the various roles you can assign to them.

Roles determine which features users see when they log into the Portal. A user might have the same role in all sites to which he has access, or a different role in each site. As administrator, you can assign users the following roles:

• Attending: An attending physician is a certified provider who is authorized to create and sign his medical reports. An attending provider also signs the reports authored by residents.

• Resident: A provider who is not yet certified. Residents can author medical reports but they are not authorized to sign them; they can only approve the reports, which are later signed by an attending provider. In most cases, the resident has a designated attending physician (or group of attending physicians) who eventually signs the report.

• Fellow: A fellow’s role is similar to a resident’s, but a fellow might have the privileges of an attending provider if certified in a specialty. When logging in as a fellow, the user has the option to select either the attending or resident role. Depending on your facility, a fellow might have signing privileges on some reports but resident privileges (non-signing) on others.

• Editor: An editor transcribes recorded dictation. In addition, an editor can listen to dictated audio and correct errors in the output of automated speech recognition. An editor can create a draft report without dictation; the draft report is then finalized by a radiologist.

• Front Desk: A front desk user has limited rights on the Portal. For example, front desk users can scan patient insurance cards, and so on.

• Order Entry: The order entry role is used for the RadPort order entry system. Users assigned the order entry role can use the Portal application only to enter, modify, or update orders in the system.

• Technologist: Before the radiologist dictates a report on an order, a technologist might supply some data that has not been sent in HL7 as part of the order. Alternately, a technologist can create a draft report without dictation; the report is then finalized by a radiologist.