IMPAX 6.5.1 Client Knowledge Base: Extended > Getting started > Administration: Getting started
IMPAX for Radiology is intended for use by radiologists trained to review and analyze a variety of medical images and other evidence documents in order to record their findings. Using a Radiologist license gives access to all features of IMPAX for Radiology.
When configuring the IMPAX Client for radiologists, the following tasks are often required.
1. Create a radiologist role and any required sub-specialty roles
Creating a role simplifies the task of providing all users of the Radiologist license with the features they need. As a shortcut, use the Radiology role and its sub-role, Radiologist, in the default role hierarchy shipped with IMPAX. These roles have default permissions and preferences that make configuration faster. You can also create sub-roles that further break down Radiology by sub-specialty, such as Paediatrics.
2. Add users to the radiologist role
Radiologists should have this as their primary role. If your department divides radiologists by specialty, such as Paediatrics or Neuroradiology, you can place specialists into separate roles. If radiologists cover different areas in the department periodically, you can place them into these specialty roles as their secondary roles.
3. Assign the Radiologist license to the radiologist role
Licenses are assigned to roles; any users belonging to those roles can use those licenses. For radiology roles, assign the Radiologist license, and ensure that this is the default license for that role.
4. Modify the permissions for the radiology roles
The set of default roles in IMPAX also has default permissions appropriate to those roles. You can create different permissions, if required, for your specific workflows. Or, you can edit the permissions shipped with IMPAX. Refer to Permissions: Workflow applications.
Radiologists require a reporting workflow, which you must create. You must define:
Options for how worklist studies are initially displayed
What happens after studies are dictated
6. Define relevance rules for opening priors
Relevance rules determine which studies are considered the most important priors for comparison to the current study being interpreted. After you define these rules in the Configure area - Preferences section, radiologists can choose to open the relevant priors automatically with the current study.
7. Configure the Text area for the radiologists
The Text area has three bars that can be expanded to show information: Order, Study, and Report. The position of these bars is remembered for new and for dictated studies. To configure them, impersonate the radiology role, open a study with a New status in the Text area, and position the bars appropriately (for example, the Study bar should be opened enough to view the Study Comments area to determine formatting and if you want to enable voice comments). Repeat the process for an Approved study, but this time fully expand the Report bar so the report and any key images are quickly available.
8. Configure hanging protocols and screen layout defaults for image display
The order in which a modality generates series within an exam may not match the order a radiologist prefers to view them. To determine the series order for all modalities, you can configure hanging protocols. To define how studies, series, and images are arranged into columns and rows on the available monitors, use the Screen Layout tab of the Customize dialog. You can define which 10 of 44 possible screen formats are available for each modality or modality and body part, and which is the default.
9. Define which tools appear by default based on the current modality in the customizable area of the top toolbar or to the context toolbar
Most of the common general radiology tools are in the top toolbar all the time, but you can also set up certain tools to appear by default based on the current modality.
10. Configure the diagnostic monitors
Radiologists require some specific monitor configuration for their diagnostic monitors. In the Configure area - Stations section, you can group the radiology stations, then configure them all at once. Refer to Determining how stations should be organized.
Topic number: 8931 Applies to: IMPAX 6.5.1 Client Knowledge Base |