Patient information Management in radiology Flashcards
What does the HIS contain?
- All general patient information (name, DOB, address etc.)
- All visits to the hospital (inpatient/outpatient/ER)
- Electronic Medical Records (EMR)
- All patient data
Is the HIS able to draw and push infomration to other systems?
Yes
What systems of HIS are involved in radiology?
- RIS
- PACS
As a tech, what system do we have access to on the HIS? What do we send it to?
- We have acess to RIS, PACS, and archive
- Send images to a storing system called PACS
What is RIS?
A subsection (Software) of HIS only used in th radiology department.
Radiology information system
Read over the following purposes of RIS:
- management of workflow within radiology department
- radiology billing services
- appointment scheduling
- Access reports from radiologist
- Manage worklist for modalities
Read over the following ways we as techs can acesses RIS
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- Order Entry
- Scheduling of Exams
- Access Departmental Worklist
- Exam Management:
- Patient Locator
- Access Reports
- Alerts – document allergies
What information is recorded with exam managment? Why may these things be important, besides billing?
- Start and End Exams
- Billing and Workload Units
- Who worked on this exam?
Important for legal reasons, adressing challenges with techs, or exposure to diseases
What is the MRN?
Mediacal record number specific to the hospital
What does PACS stand for?
Picture Archiving and Communications System
What are the benefits of PACS?
- Solves issues of image loss or misfilling
- Allows multiple phsyicians to view images
- More economical
- Effiency of data managment
- Post processing
What are the disadvantages of PACS?
- Initial cost
- Laramounts of bandwidth and can crash
- Stong internet technology needed to handle PACs traffic efficently
- Vendor specific software can present challenges with communication with RIS and HIS
What is DICOM? What is it’s purpose?
-Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (eqivalent to jpeg)-it is a file type
-Purpose is to to store, exchange, and transmit medical images worldwide
What are the words, such as the date, patient ID,ect. that appear over the image called?
DICOM overlay
What are the 2 Separate Billings Components?
Professional Component (P)
Technical Component (H)
