Quality Check

Quality Check in PowerScribe One is a real-time feature that evaluates report content during dictation to identify potential errors or inconsistencies. As a report is dictated, Quality Check reviews the text and surfaces alerts and Smart Assist considerations, allowing users to review and address items prior to finalizing and signing the report.

What Quality Check reviews

Quality Check identifies the following types of discrepancies:

• Laterality mismatch: Identifies discrepancies where the dictated side does not match the ordered exam. For example, the exam order specifies the left wrist, but the report references the right wrist.
• Sex mismatch: Identifies discrepancies between the patient’s documented sex and sex-specific terms or anatomy referenced in the report.
• Critical test result/Actionable findings: Identifies and highlights potential critical results dictated in a report. This alert can be customized and managed by your PowerScribe System Administrator.

How discrepancies are identified

Quality Check compares dictated report text with Procedure Data and patient demographics:

• Laterality mismatches are detected by identifying laterality indicators (such as left or right) in combination with anatomical details defined in the Procedure Data.
• Sex mismatches are identified by comparing patient demographic information with sex-specific terms or anatomy referenced in the report.
  Sex mismatch alerts are suppressed when a non-binary sex is identified.
• Critical test results and actionable findings are flagged based on predefined terms identified in the Findings and/or Impression sections, as configured by the system administrator.

Benefits of Quality Check

• Quality Check helps support consistency and accuracy.
• Reduces common documentation errors and mismatches, improving patient safety.
• Highlights potential critical findings that may require timely follow-up.
• Allows issues to be addressed before signing, reducing the need for addenda or corrections.
• Supports standardized reporting and regulatory requirements.

Review your preference settings

You can control which Quality Check types are enabled in your preferences.

To review your Quality Check preferences

1. Select the down arrow to the right of your username and select Preferences.

2. In the Preferences window, select Report Editing > Enable Quality Check types.
   ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Select one or more of the following options (at least one selection is required):

   • Critical test results
   • Sex mismatches
   • Laterality mismatches

3. In the Preferences window, select Workflow > Enable Quality Check alerts when signing.

Use Quality Check

1. Dictate a report in the Report Editor.
2. Review any alerts that appear in the Navigator pane and/or Smart Assist considerations, including:
   • Sex mismatches
   • Laterality mismatches
   • Critical results or actionable findings
3. Resolve the identified issues. When a discrepancy is corrected, the corresponding alert or consideration is automatically removed.