Working with Teaching Cases

A teaching case is a scrapbook of images taken from one or more studies belonging to a selected patient. InteleViewer saves teaching cases on the IntelePACS.

Using the Teaching Case Editor, you can zoom, adjust the window level, and manipulate the images by using the standard InteleViewer toolset. You can also create measurements, text annotations, arrow annotations, elliptical, and circular annotations on the images to highlight particular areas of interest.

You can also add case information, including keywords, ACR codes, and clinical history. You can then set access rights that limit the ability of other users to view and edit these cases. Finally, you can send the teaching cases to the IntelePACS for permanent storage.

When creating a teaching case, you can also anonymize the patient health information (PHI) contained in the corresponding images, in order to safely present it at conferences, clinical review meetings, or teaching sessions.

The PHI anonymization process removes the following identifiable data:

Patient identifiers (name, ID, birth date, etc.)
Facility identifiers
Referring physician identifiers

The Anonymize option is only available while creating a new teaching case. When editing an already existing teaching case, it is disabled.

Since the anonymization process cannot remove PHI data from scanned documents, InteleViewer will exclude any scanned documents from the anonymized study. This feature requires a version of IntelePACS that supports this feature. For information on if this feature is supported on your version of IntelePACS, contact your PACS administrator or Customer Success manager and reference issue number IP-106402.

You can also group teaching cases into collections. A teaching collection is a group of teaching cases from a single patient or several different patients.

To use this feature, ask your PACS administrator to enable the Viewing Teaching Files and Edit Teaching Files privileges in your user account.

To open the teaching case editor:

Do one of the following:
- From the main menu, choose Tools | Show Teaching Case Editor.
- Use the shortcut key F.
- From the toolbar, click the Show Teaching Case Editor tool .