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  • Physician: examine patients, obtain medical histories, diagnose illnesses, or prescribe and administer treatment for people suffering from injury or disease.
  • Radiologist: is a physician who has specialized training in obtaining and interpreting medical images, which makes him or her an imaging expert.
  • Radiographer: is a medical professional who creates medical images of the human anatomy to aid radiologists and other doctors diagnose and treat illness and injury.
  • Image Management System: is a system capable to process worklists and return images (e.g. PACS, modalities), using standardized services (DICOM Modality Worklist, MPPSModality: equipment or probes used to acquire images of the body (CR, MR, CT, US or NM).
  • Scheduler: staff who schedule orders.

Use Cases

  • Create order: This use case allows you to create a radiology order indicating the type of procedure and priority, according to the patient examination.
  • Schedule order: This use case allows you to schedule the date of the performance of radiologic procedures requested by the referring physician in the order. Medical Record System: OpenMRSFurthermore, to assign the specialist in charge of diagnosing the requested study.
  • Create study: This use case allows the acquisition of patient images in the modality.
  • Create report: This use case allows you to create reports with a diagnosis of a patient, according to the results of imaging studies performed.
  • View image: This use case allows you to view digital medical images of a patient, that can be manipulated by adjusting brightness and contrast, measurements, zooming, etc.