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The document provides guidelines for PowerScribe 360 | Reporting providers on how to create DICOM SR (Structured Report) data templates and AutoText. It outlines the steps needed to set up templates for merging DICOM SR data into reports, including requirements for administrators and specific instructions for managing merge fields. This feature enhances communication with external systems by allowing standardized data sharing in medical imaging.

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DICOM SR Map

The document provides guidelines for PowerScribe 360 | Reporting providers on how to create DICOM SR (Structured Report) data templates and AutoText. It outlines the steps needed to set up templates for merging DICOM SR data into reports, including requirements for administrators and specific instructions for managing merge fields. This feature enhances communication with external systems by allowing standardized data sharing in medical imaging.

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PowerScribe 360 | Reporting

DICOM SR for Providers

Optional Feature

Product: PowerScribe 360 | Reporting Doc. Num: P36P004


Version: 2.0, 2.5, 3.0 Date: 19 December 2013
Subject: DICOM SR for Providers

Overview
DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) is a standard developed by the
American College of Radiology (ACR) and the National Electrical Manufacturers Association
(NEMA) for handling, storing, printing, and transmitting information in medical imaging.
The DICOM interface allows the PowerScribe 360 | Reporting system to communicate more easily
with external system and share data, in an industry standard format. It allows external vendors to send
DICOM SR (Structured Report) objects to PowerScribe 360 | Reporting, and allows PowerScribe 360
| Reporting to query external systems for DICOM SR objects.

Audience
This document is designed for PowerScribe 360 | Reporting providers. It explains how to create
templates and AutoText that contains DICOM SR data

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DICOM SR for Providers

Create a DICOM SR Data Template


In order for DICOM SR data to automatically populate fields in your report templates, you must first
create one or more templates for the SR data merge fields. Creating these templates makes the SR
data fields available to administrators (or providers with administrator privileges) so that they can
create AutoText that contains the SR data fields.

Requirements
• You must be an administrator for the site, or sites, sending the DICOM SR data.
• You must have the role of Attending provider for the site, or sites, sending the DICOM SR
data.

Create the SR Template


1. Log in to the PowerScribe 360 | Reporting client application.
2. Click Tools > AutoText Editor.
3. Click DICOM Merge Fields.

The DICOM Merge Field Manager window opens.

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4. Click Manage DICOM SRs.

The DICOM SR Template Manager window opens.


5. Click Add.

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6. Enter the accession number for the DICOM procedure you would like to add to the Merge
Field library, and click OK.

Merge Message Box


If this is not the first SR template you have created, you might be presented with a dialog box
similar to the example shown below. This occurs when the procedure you are adding is in the
same study category as an existing template. In the example below, an existing template and
the one you selected are in the same study category, which is Mammography CAD Report.

The message box offers three options, explained below:

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• Yes: Merges the data elements into one template. The provider would use (drag/drop) only
the elements needed according to the template or report which she is dictating.
• No: Allows you to create another SR template that is specific to the procedure listed.
• Cancel: No changes are made.
7. If you were not presented with the merge message box described above, or if you clicked No
at the message box, a dialog box similar to the following example opens.

8. Enter a name and description for the template.


9. Click OK.
10. Click OK in the DICOM SR Template Manager window to save your changes and close it.

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Specify Merge Fields for the SR Template


Once you have created the DICOM SR templates, specify which of the fields in the template will be
available when you are creating your AutoText.
1. Click Tools > AutoText Editor > DICOM Merge Fields button.
2. If you have more than one DICOM SR, select the one you want to work with from the
drop-down list.

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3. From the Template column (on the left side of the dialog box), click the plus sign (+) next to
the categories whose elements you would like to include as merge fields for the procedure. In
this example we selected Biparietal Diameter.

4. Click Add and enter a name and description for the field. Or you can use the default name and
description that appears.

BEST PRACTICE: If the field you adding is a user-defined field, include the prefix UD at the
beginning of the name to let providers know that this is a user-defined field.

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5. Click OK. The merge field appears in the Merge Fields portion of the dialog box. Notice that
the category heading (Fetal Biometry in this example) is carried over as well.

6. Repeat the steps in this section for any additional merge fields.
7. When finished, click OK in the DICOM Merge Field Manager dialog box.

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Create AutoText That Uses DICOM SR Data


After you have created the DICOM SR templates and specified merge fields for each template, you
can begin to build AutoText that contain the DICOM SR merge fields.
1. Click Tools > AutoText Editor. You can start a new AutoText (from the blank screen) or open
an existing AutoText to which you want to add DICOM SR merge fields.
Tip: If you are starting a new AutoText, you might want to create your headings before
inserting the merge fields.

2. Click the Merge Fields tab on the right side of the window.
Tip: If you plan to add several merge fields from different templates, click the pin icon to
keep the Merge fields tab open. Otherwise it will close when you move your mouse off of
it.

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3. Click the Type drop-down list and select the merge field list from which you want to make
selections. (For example, if you are starting a new AutoText, you might begin by typing the
headings and then select General Fields to add basic patient information.)

4. Select one of the DICOM SR templates and begin adding merge fields to your AutoText. The
example below uses the OB-GYN Ultrasound DICOM SR merge fields.

Use the following steps to add the merge fields:


• Expand the categories you want to use
• Double-click or drag-and-drop the items into your AutoText. If you double-click, make
sure your cursor is positioned where you want the merge field to appear in the AutoText.
5. When finished building the AutoText, fill in the information on the left side of the AutoText
Editor window as needed.
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