Glossary - R Entries

Radiologist

A medical specialist who uses radioactive substances and X-rays in the treatment of disease

RAID

RAID, an acronym for redundant array of independent (or inexpensive) disks, is a technology that provides increased storage reliability through redundancy, combining multiple relatively low-cost, less-reliable disk drives components into a logical unit where all drives in the array are interdependent.

Ratio/Quality Field

Defines the compression ratio that will be used by the lossy algorithm.

Reading Physician

A health professional who diagnoses and/or treats the disease or injury of a patient.

Reading Physician IDs

A combination of letters and numbers defined in MDWebtop prior to use the RSMDintouchSvc. It is an identifier explicitly provided for the Reading Physician which helps identify the dictation as belonging to a particular reading physician.

Real Number column

The column which gives the user an option to enter values for configuration entries requiring a real number value.

Reason for Exam

A clinical indication or a purpose for the study. This may refer to a patient diagnosis, a clinical indication, a clinical status (e.g. "post op"), an intended measurement, altered anatomy (e.g. "endograft"), or some other indicator of the purpose of the exam (e.g. "screening").

Receive Log

A log of all the studies that are currently being received, or have been received in the past.

Receive section

Area that allows the ability to toggle options that are used by the RamSoft station when it is receiving studies from a remote destination.

Receive Study As

Determines what status studies received from the station should be assigned.

Recorded dictation

The recorded dictation of a study

Rectangular Markers

Indicates area that may have microcalcification.

Red Mike Icon

The Dragon Naturally Speaking icon which confirms that Dragon has been enabled along with PowerReader

Referral Inbox

A collection of studies ordered through the RapidResults.

Referrers

The referring physician assigned to a study.

Referring Physician

A physician who sends a patient to another doctor for specialty care or services

RapidResults

Provides the ability to view exam results from any computer with connectivity to the server. It utilizes a simplified version of PowerReader tools in order to allow for image manipulation.

Refresh Current Protocol

Refreshes the software for the new Viewing Protocols to take effect

Refresh Download Progress button

Used to make sure that the blue progress indicator and the loading objects message are up to date.

Refresh MPR images based on rotation angle button

Will apply the newly entered angle to the displayed images.

Relevant Prior Matching

Is a feature that is directly tied into routing of studies. Relevant Prior Prefetching refers to identifying any studies that constitute a prior for a study that will be distributed through routing, and distributing those priors along with the new one. This gives the users working with the studies immediate access to prior studies and eliminates the need for the manual recovery of these studies.

Relevant Resource Matching

If Relevant Resource Matching is checked, then it will cause the scheduler to display only the resources with the same modality as the Scheduled Modality of the currently selected study in the Worklist. To be able to make modifications in the scheduler your user needs to have the Schedule Studies privilege which can be configured in Users and Facilities - Roles.

Remote Site

A part of a facility situated at a different physical location than the PowerServer. PowerReader workstations at a Remote Site connect to the PowerServer via a WAN or the Internet.

Remove level

The method for deleting the annotation level permanently.

Remove scout lines

Will not display any scout information.

Removing a level

The right click option which allows a user to remove a level of annotation.

Repair Patient Name option

Selecting this option will check all incoming patient names to see if they contain carats (^). If they are missing, they will automatically be placed into the name. This helps in reducing conflicts and matching up priors with existing patients.

Replication Service

Used to send image date directly to the PowerCache

Report Engine

Can give reports about how long studies were at each study status, how much time a Radiologist, Transcriptionist or Technologist spent on the study, the count of the study, and Auto Query Retrieve information.

Report module

The module activated by the user to start Dragon Naturally Speaking. Indicated by the Red Mike icon turning green.

Report Window

Displays a list of reports that belong to the patient. Selecting a report will display the report as a PDF file inside Internet Explorer.

Reporting Tools Toolbar

The toolbar displaying all the reporting tools of the software.

Reporting Tools toolbar

The toolbar displaying all the reporting tools of the software.

Reports automatically forwarded

You can choose to have your reports automatically forwarded for any study belonging to this facility.

Request Log

The log containing a list of all studies that have been requested and are currently being received, are queued up to be received, or have been requested and received in the past

Requesting Priority

Can be used to determine which studies arrive first.

Resend inactive fax option

The option attempts to send an inactive fax at the time interval chosen by the user.

Reservations

Determines if Blocked Time can be created for a given resource

Reset display Settings button

A button used to reset dialogue display settings to default.

Reset Image

Reverts the image back to its original state.

Reset Modality Button

This button will reset the annotation modifications for the current modality to the settings defined in the % sign selection.

Reset Password page

A page which allows the user to reset their password.

Reset toolbars

The option which resets the toolbar. Accessed through Window-Toolbars - Reset Toolbar.

Resolution (Fax)

The resolution for the outgoing fax. Can be Standard, Normal or Fine.

Resource

An asset a facility uses to perform medical imaging procedures

Resource Layout Editor

If you want to specify which resources are visible click on Resource Layout Editor. In this editor you can also change the order the resources display with the Up and Down buttons.

Resources Button

The Facility Resource form is used to set up schedulable Resources that will be accessible from the Scheduler. To access this, simply select the facility for which you wish to create or modify a location and click on the Resources button. A Department and a Room must already exist in order to create a resource.

Restore

This will restore the image and desktop layout back to normal.

Resume Button

If a study reaches one of the failed statuses, it can be manually restarted by highlighting it and clicking the Resume button.

Retrieve Button

Extracts selected item from archive

Retrieve Function

Can be used to retrieve archived studies from any media accessible by the system.

Reverse button

Scroll backwards through the series

RGB

The RGB color model is an additive color model in which red, green, and blue light are added together in various ways to reproduce a broad array of colors. Images without RGB encoding are printed in grayscale.

Right-click Menu

By right-clicking your mouse on a studying the Worklist, you can change the status of the study

RIS

A radiology information system (RIS) is a computerized database used by radiology departments to store, manipulate and distribute patient radiological data and imagery. The system generally consists of patient tracking and scheduling, result reporting and image tracking capabilities

RIS string

The URL used to invoke the integrated RIS

ROI histogram

Will display details about the density/intensity of the pixels within the ROI.

ROI pull down menu

Menu used to access the ROI tools

ROI Tools

Used to draw a region of interest (ROI) on the image

ROI zoom

(Region of Interest) zoom. It is used by clicking on a spot on an image and dragging out a square around the region you would like to magnify. As soon as you have the square adjusted as desired, releasing the mouse button will magnify the region so it fills up the current window.

Role

Role membership determines what available actions (privileges) a user has on the system.

Role Worklist

An option that allows the creation of a Worklist that will be available to all users within a role.

Roles

Role membership determines what available actions (privileges) a user has on the system.

Room

Allows you to enter text to specify a room number, also can be a description of the room/department with attach room number (Ex. Rad-105)

Rotation Value

Is the angle of the cutting plane in relation to the X axis.

RS MDinTouch

The service application which bridges functionality between the RamSoft software and the MDIntouch's MDWebtop system. The MDinTouch works in tandem with MDIntouch slingshot, an application designed to send files to the MDWebtop system and then create an audio file in the .WAV format.

Run Only When PowerReader Runs

When enabled will prevent the Cache from running when the PowerReader is closed.

Run Report button

Button used to make the report appear

RVU Professional

The cost, charged by the RVU Professional. Relative value units (RVUs) are a measure of value used in the United States Medicare reimbursement formula for physician services. The professional component is provided by the physician, and may include supervision, interpretation, and a written report.

RVU Technical

The cost, charged by the RVU Technician. Relative value units (RVUs) are a measure of value used in the United States Medicare reimbursement formula for physician services. The technical component of a service includes the provision of all equipment, supplies, personnel, and costs related to the performance of the exam.