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1. General radiologists should be restricted to reporting/viewing only studies for which they are assigned for the facilities they are credentialed.  Custom/System radiologist access filters should be reserved for unusual use cases.
2. Assign specific cases to specific interpreting physicians first, excluding those cases from other rules if necessary.  (Cardiology, mammography, B-read cases, for example, might be assigned to a very select group of radiologists or cardiologists.)
   
   1. The "Do not allow cases that qualify for this rule to be assigned by subsequent rules" option is helpful for this case.  For example, if the auto assignment rule criteria were to filter the study description and find cases for cardiology by filtering the study description for "EKG" then selecting the above option will make sure that rules that are processed after do not consider the EKG cases.
   2. Create rules that may prefer specific radiologists for certain cases or facilities.   If certain facilities prefer certain radiologists, those radiologists may be included in a earlier rule.   Max queue size and the ""Allow this auto assignment rule to bypass the radiologist max queue size for:" and/or "Do not allow cases that qualify for this rule to be assigned by subsequent rules" could be used to control if this assignment is only preferred up until a max assignment is reached and whether those cases would be assigned to a more general rule later on. 
   3. Exclude specialized interpreting physicians from subsequent rules if necessary.
3. Use schedules for radiologists
   
   1. Create schedules when radiologists are will be actively reading.   Rules that contain these radiologists will not consider them when they are not active.  
4. Max queues and high priority cases.
   
   1. Use the max queue size to help account for differences in reading speed between radiologists.
   2. High priority critical or stat cases can be allowed to go past a radiologists max queue size.  If all radiologists are over their max queue size then cases will be assigned by how many cases are over the max case size.
   3. Possibly create a rule that assigns high priority cases past a maximum queue that are not necessarily STAT by using the using the "Allow this auto assignment rule to bypass the radiologist max queue size for:" option with the "All cases" selected. 
5. Have a general rule at the end.
   1. When all the specific cases are handled above, have a general rule at the end that assigns most regular cases
   2. The rule will only consider radiologists that are credentialed to write reports at the facility for assignment.
6. Make sure to select proper study status and confirmation status for the rule criteria.   Narrow the date criteria to an appropriate value.  (Ex.  Only search for Read Ready to Read cases, that are "Confirmed" or "Not required" to be confirmed "Arrived within" the last 6 hours)
7. Make sure that your auto assignment rules criteria only return cases that SHOULD be assigned.    
   
   

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