Radiology Systems Monitoring - Brief Proposal: Difference between revisions

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1. Proposed Profile: System Monitoring

Proposal Editor: Steve Langer
Date: N/A (Wiki keeps history)
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Domain: Radiology

2. The Problem

There is no standard method for observing and gathering health indicators for actors such as queue depths.

When an exam is overdue, it is often difficult to figure out where in the workflow it "got stuck".

It would be useful to be able to do data mining on departmental activities, or to use such statistics for process improvement, however such information today is extremely fragmented. It's in different formats, different levels of detail and often requires knowing "secret handshakes" to access, if it's available at all.

These are the kind of tools that should be available for Radiology to operate like a modern datacenter.

3. Key Use Case

Diagnosing Disrupted Workflows

At Mayo, to figure out where a missing exam is "stuck", we custom wrote DBase qry and report tools that paint out entire workflow on a web page and chart out

order-->RIS--->WklistBroker---->Modality---->PACS---->Archive--->Clinical Viewer

So to find an Exam, one enters the the Accession and tracks the progress across the above chain as well as the status of the order in each actor.

Departmental Dashboards

4. Standards & Systems

5. Discussion

Tracking radiology performance with a dashboard on Aunt Minnie has some ideas.

Radiology Proposals 2007-2008

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+==1. Proposed Profile: System Monitoring==
-* Proposal Editor: ''Steve Langer''
+* Proposal Editor: Steve Langer
 * Date:    N/A (Wiki keeps history)
 * Version: N/A (Wiki keeps history)
-* Domain: ''<Domain name (ie. Radiology)>''
+* Domain: Radiology
 ==2. The Problem==
-This profile would permit observe ring the queue depths and other health indicators for Actors, as well as support data mining. For instance, at Mayo, to figure out where a missing exam is "stuck", we custom wrote DBase qry and report tools that paint out entire workflow on a web page and chart out
+There is no standard method for observing and gathering health indicators for actors such as queue depths.
+When an exam is overdue, it is often difficult to figure out where in the workflow it "got stuck".
+It would be useful to be able to do data mining on departmental activities, or to use such statistics for process improvement, however such information today is extremely fragmented.  It's in different formats, different levels of detail and often requires knowing "secret handshakes" to access, if it's available at all.
+These are the kind of tools that should be available for Radiology to operate like a modern datacenter.
+==3. Key Use Case==
+'''Diagnosing Disrupted Workflows'''
+At Mayo, to figure out where a missing exam is "stuck", we custom wrote DBase qry and report tools that paint out entire workflow on a web page and chart out
 order-->RIS--->WklistBroker---->Modality---->PACS---->Archive--->Clinical Viewer
 So to find an Exam, one enters the the Accession and tracks the progress across the above chain as well as the status of the order in each actor.
-This should not have been as hard as it was, and require one to know as many secret handshakes as it did. In fact, it should be possible for a third party company to make Dashboards that can do this for arbitrary Actor vendors that comply with the profile. It's too bad this idea will have to wait another year.
+'''Departmental Dashboards'''
+==4. Standards & Systems==
+==5. Discussion==
+[http://www.auntminnie.com/index.asp?Sec=sup&Sub=imc&Pag=dis&ItemId=77401&wf=2064&d=1 Tracking radiology performance with a dashboard] on Aunt Minnie has some ideas.
+[[Radiology Proposals 2007-2008]]