Cerner RadNet® Radiology Desktop An image is worth a thousands words Conventional radiology workstations breed time consuming and frustrating inefficiencies. Reliance upon multiple computer systems creates workflow that hinders productivity and invites error. Cerner RadNet® Radiology Desktop (RDT) is the first unified system designed specifically to enhance the safety, efficiency and productivity of radiology interpretations. RDT revolutionises the way radiologists work. The solution provides an intuitive user interface that logically displays all critical information and tools on a single screen. From this interface, radiologists quickly and conveniently access images, previous reports, the electronic patient record (EPR) and synchronised, seamless reporting solutions. RDT provides contextually relevant data at the clinically appropriate time. Equally effective in film-based and filmless environments, it helps streamline the workflow between radiologists and transcriptionists while improving communications across care teams. Built on the unified Cerner Millennium® architecture, RDT delivers comprehensive integration that enables a universal, personcentric worklist and access to the complete EPR. Cerner’s three-monitor configuration smoothly links RadNet® Radiology Information System (RIS) and Cerner ProVision™ PACS. Radiologists have a complete suite of tools with one-touch workflow for reporting, informational reference, exam protocoling and image manipulation in a single time-effective workstation.
Access critical information Once a radiologist selects a study on the worklist, the online requisition and all previous studies immediately become available. With a single click, the system displays the previous report and all exam details. The radiologist can instantly access the EPR to view information such as lab results, recent procedures, medical history and EKG data.
View critical results If a radiologist finds a critical result, he or she can flag that exam with a critical or abnormal normalcy indicator. That flag, in turn, highlights the result within RadNet and other Cerner Millennium solutions. Flagging a result with one of these normalcy indicators can also trigger a Discern Expert® rule to notify a referring physician of a specific result to review.
efficient, safer and higher quality interpretation of ED radiology exams.
Incorporate technical comments The Technical Comments feature provides efficient paperless communication throughout the radiology exam process. Radiology Technologists choose flexible, userdefinable fields or free text to assign protocols, capture technical procedure information or document patient notes. Technical comments can be viewed at the time of interpretation. Depending on authorisation or exam status, others involved in the exam process may also view technical comments in modify or view-only mode.
Key Benefits
Increase patient safety
Establish role-based worklists
Maximise productivity with efficient workflow
A wide range of worklists are available and esily customizable within RDT. Radiologists personalise worklists by exam status, patient location, modality, procedure name and patient age. Departments create and save individual worklists as part of the user’s profile.
Improve departmental communication
Perform wet reads The wet read capability of RDT helps enhance emergency department (ED) workflow. ED physicians can document their preliminary findings for interactive decision support prior to the radiologist’s final interpretation. Wet reads allow radiologists to eliminate manual paper processes for a more
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Enhance report creation and sign-out RDT incorporates key solutions for report creation using such integrated tools as templates, voice recognition and digital dictation. The solution allows radiologists to configure the system using Auto Launch Study and Report Launch Option commands. The Auto Launch Study feature can be used in conjunction with the Report Launch options within Report Manager, Cerner’s integrated digital dictation
Streamline Image Management Cerner RadNet速 Radiology Desktop solution or the Nuance PowerScribe速 solution. Other functions, such as accession linking allow users to link multiple studies under a single report. These tools result in quicker report turnaround and improved satisfaction among referring physicians and patients. RDT also allows radiologists to fully unify access to clinical patient data and historical results online. They no longer have to repeatedly log out of one system and log in to another.
Digital dictation and voice recognition Adding integrated digital dictation to Radiology Desktop dramatically streamlines workflow for radiologists and transcriptionists. This dictation system is fully connected to RDT, eliminating the need for expensive interface maintenance. The system inherently links patient demographic information to the dictated result, allowing organisations to reduce mismatching errors, streamline report creation and speed report turnaround. The voice files created with Integrated Digital Dictation
also are accessible to authorised users via telephone. To enhance workflow efficiency and drastically reduce report turnaround time, users can add voice-recognitiondriven reporting to RDT, which is tightly integrated with PowerScribe速 . Such third-party integration eliminates multiple workstations and exam identification normally required for interfaced voice recognition solutions. Orders are linked automatically with the dictated report. Once dictation is
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complete, the radiologist can approve the result, send it to the queue to verify later, or send the voice clip and text to a correctionist or transcriptionist for proofing and editing. For more information on Cerner radiology solutions, call us at: 020 7432 8100 or visit www.cerner.co.uk