Saving a Draft Report in PowerScribe 360

While dictating a report in PowerScribe 360, you can save a draft of the report and resume dictating later. Saving a draft is useful if you are interrupted while dictating, and you need to access another order.

You must select PowerScribe 360, or PowerScribe 360 with ClickView, as the dictation system in InteleViewer.

When you save a draft report in PowerScribe 360, IntelePACS locks the corresponding order if the PowerScribe 360 Long-Term Parking feature is enabled on your IntelePACS. You can access a locked order for reporting only if you saved the draft in PowerScribe 360. You cannot report on an order that is locked by another radiologist. The PowerScribe 360 Long-term Parking feature is disabled by default. To enable this feature, contact your PACS administrator.

When you save a draft addendum, the order is never locked since an order can have multiple addenda created by different radiologists.

The following describes the functionality when you save a draft report in PowerScribe 360 depending on whether the PowerScribe 360 Long-Term Parking feature is enabled.

If the Powerscribe 360 Long-Term Parking feature is enabled on your IntelePACS, when you save a draft report in PowerScribe 360:

PowerScribe 360 saves and closes the report.
The corresponding Patient Record tab closes in InteleViewer.
The order is locked (parked) in IntelePACS.

The order remains locked until you resume dictating the draft report in PowerScribe 360. If you are dictating linked orders, the same dictation applies to all linked orders, and all linked orders remain locked when you save a draft report in PowerScribe 360. You can resume dictating a draft by opening the order again in InteleViewer. For linked orders, opening any linked order resumes the draft report. To lock the order again, you must save the draft in PowerScribe 360. Orders that are parked in this manner appear with a half-filled star icon in the InteleViewer worklist.

When dictating a report in PowerScribe 360, if you close the corresponding Patient Record tab in InteleViewer, PowerScribe 360 prompts you to save or discard the changes to the report. Click Save to keep the changes that you made since resuming the report, or Discard to save the report without your modifications. Saving a PowerScribe 360 report in this manner does not lock the order. Once the report closes, the order is available to other radiologists for reporting. To lock a draft report, you must save the draft in PowerScribe 360.

If the Powerscribe 360 Long-Term Parking feature is disabled on your IntelePACS, when you save a draft report in PowerScribe 360:

PowerScribe 360 saves and closes the report.
The corresponding Patient Record tab remains open in InteleViewer.

The order remains locked for as long as you have the order open in InteleViewer. When you close the order or InteleViewer, the lock is removed and the order is available for reporting by other radiologists.