Clinical Guidance

Clinical Guidance is a real-time, interactive feature that helps you insert evidence-based report findings, impression, and recommendations into your report for specific findings, such as pulmonary nodules, liver lesions, adnexal masses, and thyroid nodules.

Recommendations follow established industry best practices and clinical guidelines for follow-up care.

Accessing Clinical Guidance

You can access Clinical Guidance in any of the following ways:

• Say the voice command Launch Clinical Guidance.
• Say the voice command Activate Guidance.
• Smart Assist considerations appear on the right pane if Clinical Guidance alerts are enabled. Select Clinical Guidance from the Smart Assist panel.
• Go to Tools tab and select Clinical Guidance from the menu.

Use Clinical Guidance in your workflow

1. Open a report and dictate findings in the Report Editor.

2. Review any alerts that appear in the Navigator pane or Right pane (Smart Assist considerations).

3. Say Activate Guidance to automatically launch relevant guidance based on your dictated findings.

   Alternatively, say Launch Clinical Guidance, and then select the appropriate guideline from the list.

   Note

   You can filter the list by selecting Show relevant guidance only. This filter uses the current report’s modality, patient age, and sex.

4. Double-click a supporting resource icon to open the Clinical Guidance dialog box.

   Note

   Fields marked with a blue bar are required and must be completed to generate text.

   • Enter values and make selections from the drop-down lists.
   • If relevant findings were dictated, applicable fields are automatically populated.

5. Choose whether to include Findings, Impression, Recommendations, and Citations by selecting the appropriate check boxes.

   Note

   Depending on your system configuration, Impression and Recommendation text may be combined.

6. Select Insert and confirm that the generated text appears correctly in your report.

How Clinical Guidance text is inserted

• The Findings text is inserted at the cursor location or replaces highlighted text.
• If an Impression heading exists, Impression text is added after existing content in that section.
• If no Impression heading exists, Impression text is added near the end of the report, above the citation.
• Citation text is inserted at the bottom of the report.

Edit Clinical Guidance text

After inserting guidance text, you can revise it by updating the guidance parameters.

1. Right-click the guidance text in the report.
2. Select Launch Guidance.
3. Update values or selections in the Clinical Guidance window.
4. Select Update to refresh the text in the report.

   Tip

   Edit parameters in the Clinical Guidance window rather than the report text directly.

Remove Clinical Guidance text

If you decide not to include Clinical Guidance text, right-click the guidance text in the report, and then select Delete Guidance.

Configure Clinical Guidance preferences

Steps to configure Clinical Guidance preferences:

1. Open Preferences.
2. Select Report Editing.
3. Turn on Enable Clinical Guidance alerts for Smart Assist.