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QA Workflow

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Performing QA

If your facility needs to evaluate and track the quality of exams for an imaging program, emergency department, or any organization requiring the credentialing of interpretations, optional QA functionality can meet this need.
In the Studycast system, QA functionality allows physicians to attest to a subset of QA questions after a study has been read. If your Studycast account uses this functionality, your workflow for approving studies will follow this process:

Performing QA for non-credentialed users, or users that require a second signature

  1. Approve and verify the study, following the steps outlined on the Verify Study page. The study’s status changes to Final. The worksheet can no longer be edited.
  2. Navigate to the QA tab, and attest to the QA questions shown.

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Physicians belonging to the QA group that has been assigned to the study have access to view the QA worksheet tab. If you do not see the tab in the worksheet, contact the Administrator of your Studycast account to ensure that the study is assigned to the correct QA group.

Performing QA for credentialed users, or users that do not require a second signature

  1. Approve the study. The study's status changes to Final. The worksheet can no longer be edited.
  2. Navigate to the QA tab, and attest to the QA questions shown. 

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The QA group field will remain active when a study has been finalized. It will deactivate when the QA questions have been attested to.

Assigning a Study to a QA Group

If the QA group has not been assigned, or you’d like to assign the study to a different verifying physician group, you can make that change in the worksheet or in the Study Properties window.
 
In the worksheet, navigate to the Patient Information section, and locate the QA group field.
  1. To add a QA group, click the dots and begin typing.
  2. To change the QA group, select the name of the QA group and begin typing.
Admins, reading physicians and sonographers have the Change QA group permission by default.
Admins can grant this permission to other user types. 

For more information about permissions, see the User Types and Permissions page. 
For more information about managing the permissions of users in your account, see the Manage Users page.

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