Radworks™ Quality Control Module v5.1®

In many cases, acquired data requires some quality assurance post-processing before it can be permanently stored for general use in a (PACS) archive.  This task is generally performed at workstations located between acquisition devices and the hospitals network.  These Quality Control workstations fulfill a 'gatekeeper' function by ensuring that acquired images and studies are correct and have the right patient information associated with them before they are made available at other locations on the network.  Some examples when post-processing is needed are:

  • Centralized Image Quality-Control dependent workflow
  • Patient data was entered inaccurately (or not at all) during acquisition, leading to incompatibility with other data on the same patient in the PACS.
  • Images were not acquired in the right order.
  • DICOM information is incorrect or partially missing (i.e. Jane/John Doe Emergency Cases).  
  • Window level settings during acquisition were less than optimal.

The Quality Control module has been developed for just these situations.  It can be added to any of the Viewing workstations.

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Consistent Information

The Quality Control software provides extremely powerful features to enter or to modify almost any study or patient information prior to permanent archiving.  This helps ensure that patient information is consistent throughout the hospital.  In addition to patient demographics, all DICOM information, image order, window level settings and annotation be modified.  When used correctly, this can save your organization a great deal of work, but it requires very strict control procedures in order to minimize potential risk due to error.

Some Applications

Because you can modify almost any DICOM field, the Quality Control Module can be used for educational purposes, to change patient data for privacy reasons, to change and update John and Jane Does, and for quality assurance and the post-processing of images.

Integration

The Quality Control Module has built-in DICOM modality worklist management support and through this and other worklist support it can copy and/or match patient data from HIS/RIS or previous workstation data entries.  Automatic Matching is also available in the Quality Control Module (Standard, Review, or Diagnostic level).  This facilitates the matching of patient demographics with image data without user interaction.  This powerful matching capabilities ensure that patient data from one particular person remains exactly the same for different studies.  This function also enhances the 'quality' of the study by importing data for empty fields.

 

Features

  • Automatic send function after saving (configurable)
  • Automatic saving of window/level settings (configurable)
  • Automatic renumbering of images after reordering the images in a study      (configurable)
  • Open a copy of the original study
  • Open a study for quality control
  • View Study Status history
  • Access History log file of all processed failed/succeeded matching jobs
  • Support for CT, MR, US, CR, SC, RG, XA, NM, and more
  • Multi-frame support for NM, XA, US and RF
  • DICOM Query and Retrieve
  • DICOM JPEG Lossless support
  • Extensive auto-routing capabilities including time-based criteria
  • DICOM receive capability with or without compression
  • Local database and configurable remote views on other DICOM devices
  • Worklist-aware (DICOM Modality worklist management support, but also proprietary worklists)
  • Select all studies from same patient
  • Sorting and filter options on the database
  • Multi-letter type ahead feature
  • Patient report information

 
  • Immediate access to all DICOM information
  • Auto deletion option (rule based)
  • Reading of DICOM 3.0 Part 10 CD's
  • Data Selector Features
  • Delete series from study
  • Delete images from series
  • Change patient orientation
  • Automatic matching of patient data from worklist
  • Configurable Pictorial Index
  • Insert series in study
  • Insert images in series
  • Add or change demographic data
  • Configurable Viewport layout
  • Windowing, annotating, flipping and rotating
  • Configurable desktop (toolbars, command buttons)
  • Multi-monitor support available as option
  • Viewing Section Features
  • User profile settings (individual preferences)
  • High level of generic configurability
  • Configurable shortcut keys for frequent tasks
  • Extensive, context sensitive on-line-help
  • Configurable HIS/RIS support
  • Comprehensive user manual