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Assure for PowerScribe 360 | Reporting checks your report for common errors in consistency, identifies these errors, and allows you to review and/or correct them prior to signing your report.
The Assure for PowerScribe 360 | Reporting feature checks for the following discrepancies:
Laterality mismatch: Identifies places in the report where, for example, the exam was for the left side but the radiologist said right.
Gender mismatch: Identifies places in the report where, for example, the exam was for a male and the radiologist said female.
Critical test result notification: Identifies and highlights potential critical results dictated in a report.
You can configure the following preferences for Assure:
Choose one or more items (listed above) on which to run your consistency check.
Configure Assure for PowerScribe 360 | Reporting to run automatically or manually.
To configure which items on which to run consistency checks:
1. Click Tools > Preferences > General.
2. Click the drop-down arrow to the right of the Enable Assure consistency check types item.
3. Select (or clear) the check boxes based upon your specific requirements.
To configure how Assure runs (automatically or manually):
1. Click Tools > Preferences > Workflow.
2. Select (or clear) the Perform consistency check at signoff check box.
Use the information below when deciding how to configure Assure:
If you select this check box, Assure is configured to run automatically, and runs when you begin your signature workflow from the Report Editor window. (Signing a report from the Explorer window does not run Assure.)
If you clear this check box, Assure is configured to run manually. Use the voice command “Start Assure” to run the consistency check, or click the Start Assure icon on the tool bar.
1. Dictate a report (or open an existing report).
2. When finished dictating, run the Assure consistency checker. (How you do this depends upon whether you configured your system to run the check automatically or manually).
If one or more discrepancies are found, a message box opens, displaying the number of each type of discrepancy found.
When you configure your system to run automatically, this message box contains two options: Review returns you to the Report Editor where you can make corrections, while Ignore allows you to continue with your signature workflow without making any corrections.
When you configure your system to run manually, this message box contains an OK button, which returns you to Report Editor and allows you to make any necessary corrections.
Discrepancies are highlighted in the report body.
The discrepancies also appear in the Assure tab located in the left navigation panel of the Report Editor window. They are displayed by the type of inconsistency (critical test results, gender mismatches, and laterality mismatches).
3. Select a discrepancy to edit by selecting the discrepancy from the Assure list in the left navigation panel, or using the voice commands “Next Discrepancy” or “Previous Discrepancy.”
4. You can either correct or ignore a discrepancy:
If you correct a discrepancy, a check mark appears to the left of the item in the discrepancy list to indicate that it has been edited, and it is no longer highlighted in the report body.
If you ignore a discrepancy, an X appears to the left of the item in the discrepancy list to indicate that you chose to ignore this item.
5. If no discrepancies are found, a message box opens informing you that no consistency errors were found.
If no discrepancies are found when you run Assure for PowerScribe 360 | Reporting manually (at any time), click OK and either continue dictating or sign your report.
If no discrepancies are found when Assure for PowerScribe 360 | Reporting is configured to run automatically (on signature), click OK to continue with the signature workflow.