L5 eHealth Systems

Question 1

MPI

Answer 1

Master patient index, database application that stores demographic and contact details for patients it also stores patient identifiers and national identifiers

Question 2

EPR

Answer 2

Electronic patient record electronic health record electronic medical record
Stores medical records and also allows for viewing of images

Question 3

OCS

Answer 3

order comms system
Used for E requesting for a range of diagnostic tests
Physicians can track status of request and view report when available

Question 4

Dose management systems

Answer 4

Legal requirement to record dose, patient cumulative dose, identified trends, improve techniques, identify equipment issues

Question 5

VR - voice recognition

Answer 5

no standard in radiology departments, decreased report turnaround times, high-quality recognition is desirable and is achieved with training of both the user and system
Individual user accounts are cent because individual voice profiles are needed.
Expensive as costed by individual licenses and desktop integration essential to reduce risk

Question 6

POST PROCESSING - MPR

Answer 6

Multiplayer reconstructions example CT creating coronal and sagittal images from the original axial images

Question 7

POST PROCESSING
MIPs and MINLP

Answer 7

Maximum intensity projections and minimum intensity projections used to visualise vessels postcontrast injections

Question 8

VRT

Answer 8

Volume rendering technique.
Allows use of colour to differentiate between tissues

Question 9

SSD

Answer 9

Shaded surface display
Uses pixel intensity values to remove thresholds which equals 3-D images

Question 10

TEACHING FILES

Answer 10

tagging of images for teaching purposes, auto anonymisation of images, keyword searching used for local cases

Question 11

QUALITY

Answer 11

peer review ( radiologist quality), double reporting - mandatory in mammography
monitoring of image quality ( radiographer q)