Description:

A typical mode used for scanning paper requisitions into an exam in your PACS to provide paperless workflow.


DocScan.INI Mode Text:

[Scan Requisitions - (Patient ID)]
ModeDescription=Scan paper requisitions into a recent existing PACS exam.
DefaultDICOMSearchMethod=MRN
ModeWorkflow=Query
DicomSearchDateRange=1-Today 
QuerySource=Archive1
StoreArchive=Archive1
AutoImageInvert=True
AutoImageGray=True


Notes:

  • The mode name is concise so end users know it is for scanning requisitions and that they will be searching by medical record number (as evidenced by the DefaultDICOMSearchMethod=MRN setting).
  • ModeDescription helps further explain that this mode is for recent exams.
  • ModeWorkflow=Query tells DocScanFx it will be performing a search of an archive or a modality worklist.  In this case it will be an archive search due to the QuerySource=Archive1 setting.
  • The DicomSearchDateRange=1-Today causes a two day search to be performed (Today and Today-1 day, written as "1-Today").  It's important to use a 2 day search for requisition scanning if your techs perform exams past midnight.  With only a one day search, an exam sent to PACS at 11:58 pm on Saturday night would not be found at 12:01 am Sunday morning when the staff tried to scan in paperwork even though the events happened just minutes apart.  The two day search solves this problem.
  • Notice that StoreArchive=Archive1 results in the scanned requisition being sent to the same archive that was queried for the original exam. It's important to note in this workflow that the new DocScanFx image will retain the same Study Instance UID (SIUID) as the originally saved exam images because the SIUID is reused by DocScanFx.  This will ensure you do not have "orphaned' scanned documents (documents separate from the original study's images) which can result in a situation where you use a SIUID from a modality worklist (MWL) query, but the original modality ignored the MWL's SIUID and generated its own.

  • AutoImageInvert=True and AutoImageGray=True ensures the images won't be like a flashlight shining in the eyes of a radiologist reading in a darkened environment.  The scanned images will automatically be inverted to have a black background and white text.  Converting it to gray scale can be important so ensure that colors on the original documents do not look strange when only inverted.

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