About Required Information and Alerts

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RIS notifies you if patient information is missing or critical.

Note: You must fill in required information before advancing in a patient's workflow.

Required information

RIS warns you when a control contains information that is missing, incomplete, or invalid. The warning appears as an icon image\ebx_-464790521.gif beside the control that requires attention. To display the message, pause your mouse pointer over the icon. You cannot advance through the RIS workflow if the required action is not met. The following table describes some common messages in RIS.

 

Message

Action Required

A required control

You must enter information in the control. Required controls can include First and Last Name.

Value is incomplete

You must fill in the control completely. Incomplete value controls can include telephone numbers.

A value is required

You must enter a value in the control. Incomplete value controls can include calendar controls.

 

Alerts

RIS alerts you when a patient is known to react to a contrast. The alert appears as an icon directly beside the control that requires attention. This icon appears on data window tabs and beside Contrast Reaction controls. If you hover your mouse pointer over the icon beside the control, you receive the following message: WARNING: Patient suffers from contrast reaction.

Flags

If a data window requires information but is not yet visited, RIS identifies it with an icon that is located on the data window's tab. You cannot advance through the RIS workflow if you do not enter the information in the data window.

 

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