Use Case 1: Manage Radiology Order

Description

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Diagram

Actors

• 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.
• Radiologic Technologist: is a medical professional who 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.

Basic Flow

1. The physician fills a radiology order form.
2. The system stores the radiology order in the OpenMRS database.
3. The radiologic technologist searchs a radiology order requested by the patient.
4. The system shows all the information related to the radiology order to the radiologic technologist.
5. The radiologic technologist update the radiology order and generates the radiology report adding the image(s).
6. The system stores the radiology report in the database.
7. The radiologist retrieves the radiology report.
8. The system shows all the updated information related to the radiology report.
9. The radiologist fills a diagnosis field.
10. The system updates the radiology report.
11. The physician retrieves the radiology report to explain it to the patient.
12. The system shows all information related to the radiologyn report.

Alternate Flows

• 2a. Provide alternate flows (reference Basic Flow Step, where applicable)

Notes

• Provide additional notes, including non-functional requirements (i.e. performance requirements)

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• the human anatomy to aid radiologists and other doctors diagnose and treat illness and injury.
• Modality: 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. Furthermore, 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.