Image Workflow - Importing

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When you press the Import button on the Imaging Workflow List, the Import Image form is presented.  You can select from a variety of fields that will be tied to the imported images. Based on the Imaging Type selected, images will be scanned to a specific Imaging Station for Workflow input. Although Imaging Types are associated with specific stations, the user does have the ability to override the default station and select another in it's place.

 

The Image Import facility works in very much the same way that Scan Image works with the following exceptions:

 

•Import Image does not support either the Brightness or the Threshold Options.  The images should already be scanned.  Changing Brightness or Threshold would be irrelevant.

 

•After pressing OK on the Import image window, Import Image invokes the standard Windows "File-Open" Dialog.  The Images should already be scanned in a location accessible to you to perform the import.  This will allow you to select the images to be imported into MedSuite.

 

Practice

Displays the practice that the user has currently selected.  Image will be scanned into this practice.

 

Date

You may enter/select the date represented by the images.  For demographic and charge images, the date should generally be the service date.  For payments, this date should be the remittance date.

 

Process Images

The Process Images drop-down list has three options:

 

"Create an image for each file imported."

When importing image files, you will have the ability to multi-select files to import all at once from the same directory, instead of having to import each one individually. This option will create a separate image for each file imported. The image will have multiple pages if the imported file contains multiple pages, or just one page if the file contains one page. Example: If you have 3 files to import with 4 pages each, you will end up with 3 images, each with 4 pages.

 

"Create an image for each page"

Will create a separate image for each page contained in an imported file (or files). Example: If you have 3 files to import with 4 pages each, you will end up with 12 separate images.

 

"Create one multi-page image"

Will create one image with multiple pages for a file (or files) imported that contain multiple pages. Example: If you have 3 files to import with 4 pages each, you will end up with 1 image with 12 pages.

 

Imaging Type

You must enter/select the type of image to be scanned.

 

Imaging Station

If the Imaging Type setup indicates that the images should be scanned to a Station, then the user should select the Station to which the images should be scanned.

 

Description

Enter the first portion of the description assigned to the image documents.  MedSuite will append a sequential number after the description.  For example, Hospital Demographics can be called DEMO and then MedSuite will assign 00001, 00002, etc to create unique document ID's DEMO00001, DEMO00002, etc..