IHERO UseCase 2011 FFF

This template is for one or two page IHE workitem proposals for initial review.

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1. Proposed Workitem: Integrated Patient QA Checker (part of Patient Safety Use Case)

• Proposal Editor: Name: Mika Miettinen, mika.miettinen@varian.com, +1 650 799 7665
• Editor: Colin Field for Mika
• Date: N/A (Wiki keeps history)
• Version: N/A (Wiki keeps history)
• Domain: Radiation Oncology

2. The Problem

Current patient QA solutions are not integrated well to the clinical workflow to enable efficient, fast and as automated daily patient QA as possible. The lack of integration causes a lot of manual work for clinicians, and thus does not encourage the adoption of these tools to be part of everyday operations and patient treatments in the clinic.

3. Key Use Case

Success Use Cases

Use Case 1

1. Treatment plan has been created and is sent to Treatment Management System (TMS)
2. Treatment is prepared by dosimetrist in TMS
3. Dosimetrist saves the final plan, and sends it to approval
4. TMS system request a “QA check” from “QA checker” (QA application)
5. “QA checker” performs the “QA Check”, and returns the results to TMS
6. If “QA Checker” result is “Ok to proceed”
   • Plan in TMS is ready to be approved by physicist and physician
   • Physicist and physician approve the plan for treatment
7. If “QA Checker” result is “Not Ok to proceed”
   • TMS informs the dosimetrist about the failure of the check

Use Case 2

1. Therapist opens the worklist on the Treatment Delivery System (TDS) and selects the patient plan to be treated.
2. TDS retrieves the patient plan from TMS
3. TDS system request a “QA check” for the plan from “QA checker” (QA application)
4. “QA checker” performs the “QA Check”, and returns the results to TDS
5. If “QA Checker” result is “Ok to proceed”
   • TDS allows therapist to start treatment (after other verification steps are completed)
6. If “QA Checker” result is “Not Ok to proceed”
   • TDS informs the therapist about the failure of the check and requires QA personnel to resolve the situation.

These are just example use cases, and any actor in the radiotherapy or radiosurgery process shall be able to call a “QA check” at any point of time of the process, and this way the clinic is able to define “QA check timeouts” in their process.

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5. Discussion

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