Use cases

This page is a refactor of OpenMRS Radiology Module Use Cases

Actors

• Physician: examine patients, obtain medical histories, diagnose illnesses, or prescribe and administer treatment for people suffering from injury or disease.
• Radiologist: is a physician who has specialized training in obtaining and interpreting medical images, which makes him or her an imaging expert.
• Radiographer: is a medical professional who creates medical images of the human anatomy to aid radiologists and other doctors diagnose and treat illness and injury.
• Modality: equipment or probes used to acquire images of the body (CR, MR, CT, US or NM).
• Scheduler: staff who schedule orders.

Use Cases

• Create order: System allows physician to create a radiology order indicating the type of procedure and priority.
• Schedule order: System allows Scheduler to program the date of the performance of radiologic procedures requested by the referring physician in the order. Furthermore, to assign the specialist in charge of diagnosing the requested study.
• Create study: System allows the acquisition of patient images from modality.
• Create report: System allows radiologist to create reports with a diagnosis of a patient.
• View image: System allows radiologist to view digital medical images of a patient, that can be manipulated by adjusting brightness and contrast, measurements, zooming, etc.