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In the auto assignment workflow, assignment of studies to a radiologist is performed according to rules determined by your organization. An auto assignment rule is comprised of a worklist filter to determine which studies qualify for auto-assignment and a set of radiologists to assign those studies to. Studies are assigned according to a radiologists privileges and access to report on a given study and the radiologist's current workload. If possible, when a patient has multiple unread case the cases are assigned to the same radiologist.
Auto assignment rules may be managed by one or more individuals in your organization by granting the "Manage auto assignment rules" user permission. Users with this permission will see an "Auto assignment rules" tab as the right-most tab on their worklist.
It should be noted that auto assignment rules can be as simple or complex as the use case calls for. The worklist criteria associated with an auto assignment rule may contain advanced expressions and complex queries. Auto assignment rules and radiologists may be scheduled to be actively receiving auto assigned cases or unavailable for auto assignment cases. Radiologists may be configured with maximum number of cases to auto assign to assist with slower or faster readers. Radiologists may also be put on a schedule to automatically change their status from receiving or not receiving cases from auto assignment rules.
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Auto assignment rules are processed alphabetically, so if the order by which cases are assigned is important you may need an naming scheme that maintains order. (Ex. 01 - Assign to echo studies, 02 - Assign to MR and CT).
Cases received in the last 3 days that have the same patient ID and are assigned to a certain radiologist may be assigned past their maximum queue size and are given priority to radiologist that have history casesStudies for the same patients can be configured to be assigned to radiologist that have already read or have other unread cases for a configured interval. (Max 7 days) If the "Attempt to assign multiple studies of the same patient to the same radiologist" checkbox is unchecked studies for the same patient will be assigned by other criteria such as case load.
If all radiologists are over their max queue size and a case is allowed to go over the max queue size then it will be assigned by the amount over the max queue size.
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NOTE: Only unread, not designated as old, unassigned cases received within the past 7 days in the "Receiving" or "Ready to Read" state qualify for auto-assignment. Radiologists that are already assigned a prior case that was sent within three days the configured interval will be preferred for other cases for the same patient. Users that may enter final reports for a facility configured to to complete final reads will receive preference over another radiologist that may only complete preliminary reports for the facility.
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