The OnePacs Reporting Dashboard includes an option to proceed to the next case upon completion of a report. This option is available to all users capable of drafting, transcribing or completing reports.
Upon completion of a report or save of a draft, when the "Open next case" box is checked, the system will automatically determine a "next" study and launch that study in the user's configured viewer as well as open the reporting dashboard. In other words, when a report is entered, the radiologist will automatically be advanced to the next available study.
The user may elect to "skip" a given case at any point by clicking on the "next" icon.
Doing so unlocks the study and proceeds to the next available case to the user.
Classic Report Editor:
Studies that are skipped are excluded from the "next case" algorithm for the remainder of the user's session or the user runs out of un-skipped cases available for interpretation.
Cloud Report Editor:
Studies may be skipped for a configurable amount of time. A default skip duration of 15 minutes may be changed in user preferences.
When the report editor is launched from the worklist, the next case feature will attempt to consider cases (the first 100 cases ordered by the order of the worklist) from the active worklist tab. It will also prefer fully downloaded cases.
For a transcriptionist, the algorithm is similar but considers cases in the "Dictated" status and does not prefer cases assigned to the current user.
The algorithm for determination of the "next" case is as follows:
For a transcriptionist, the algorithm is similar but considers cases in the "Dictated" status and does not prefer cases assigned to the current user.
The configuration options for the "Next Case" feature can be accessed by clicking on the gear icon immediately to the right of the "Open next case" checkbox.
The configuration dialog is as shown:
The configuration options determine how cases are ordered in determination of what the next case is.