Support of clinician image-related workflow by a user-edited, web-based patient list manager

Clinician efficiency can be enhanced by worklists that compile useful data for rapid access at the time of need. The authors report development of a w eb-based, user-edited "Patient List Manager" for the Clinical Image Managem ent System (CIMS). The CIMS List Manager interfaces with the CIMS Archive t o provide the user with available studies. It has tools that let the user b uild personal lists from the available studies. Listed studies are moved fr om the archive to the cache for rapid access at the time of need. Users can build/edit the list through a browser (without viewing pictures) or from w ithin the image viewer. In this way, the List Manager distributes list buil ding into knowledgeable hands. This is particularly valuable at the current time when health system patient registries are not mature enough to reliab ly support building build anticipatory patient lists. Copyright (C) 2001 by W,B. Saunders Company.