Patient information Management in radiology

Question 1

What is the hospital information system?

Answer 1

Computer based system that can manage information to allow health care providers to do their jobs effectively

Question 2

What does the HIS contain?

Answer 2

• All general patient information (name, DOB, address etc.)
• All visits to the hospital (inpatient/outpatient/ER)
• Electronic Medical Records (EMR)
• All patient data

Question 3

Is the HIS able to draw and push infomration to other systems?

Answer 3

Yes

Question 4

What systems of HIS are involved in radiology?

Answer 4

1. RIS
2. PACS

Question 5

As a tech, what system do we have access to on the HIS? What do we send it to?

Answer 5

1. We have acess to RIS, PACS, and archive
2. Send images to a storing system called PACS

Question 6

What is RIS?

Answer 6

A subsection (Software) of HIS only used in th radiology department.

Radiology information system

Question 7

What are the purposes of the RIS?

Answer 7

• management of workflow within radiology department
• radiology billing services
• appointment scheduling
• Access reports from radiologist
• Manage worklist for modalities

Question 8

What can you do, as a tech, using RIS

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Answer 8

1. Order Entry
2. Scheduling of Exams
3. Access Departmental Worklist
4. Exam Management:
5. Patient Locator
6. Access Reports
7. Alerts – document allergies

Question 9

What information is recorded with exam managment? Why may these things be important, besides billing?

Answer 9

1. Start and End Exams
2. Billing and Workload Units
3. Who worked on this exam?

Important for legal reasons, adressing challenges with techs, or exposure to diseases

Question 10

What is the MRN?

Answer 10

Mediacal record number specific to the hospital

Question 11

What does PACS stand for?

Answer 11

Picture Archiving and Communications System

Question 12

What are the benefits of PACS?

Answer 12

1. Solves issues of image loss or misfilling
2. Allows multiple phsyicians to view images
3. More economical
4. Effiency of data managment
5. Post processing

Question 13

What are the disadvantages of PACS?

Answer 13

1. Initial cost
2. Laramounts of bandwidth and can crash
3. Stong internet technology needed to handle PACs traffic efficently
4. Vendor specific software can present challenges with communication with RIS and HIS

Question 14

What is DICOM? What is it’s purpose?

Answer 14

-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

Question 15

What are the words, such as the date, patient ID,ect. that appear over the image called?

Answer 15

DICOM overlay

Question 16

What are the 2 Separate Billings Components?

Answer 16

Professional Component (P)

Technical Component (H)

Question 17

What things fall under the professional comonenet billing?

Answer 17

Interpreting results – Radiologist

Question 18

What things that fall under the technological component billing?

Answer 18

• Preparing the patient for the procedure
• Performing the procedure
• Post procedure care

Question 19

What is an example of when billing can get rejected?

Answer 19

Inputting two exams into the billing system at one time