Prasanth Kollaikal MS, Presenter: Nothing to Disclose

The PR3 solution supports the following features: i)It will benefit patients to get custom reports with understandable explanations with support for multiple languages. ii)The PR3 approach can be extended to support DICOM SR and provide better decision making choices to the consumer.

Currently, radiology reports contain significant amounts of medical jargon. With an increasing focus on consumer empowerment, there is a growing need to create reports which can be easily understood by the patients themselves. Using RadLex codes in reports will allow for the creation of patient understandable reports and enable them to make more informed choices and manage their own healthcare records through consumer health platforms.

The PR3 solution described in this paper provides the ability to create reports in a HL7 CDA format with RadLex codes and creates a patient understandable version of the report (i.e. with explanations for the medical terms). These reports can be stored in EHRs or any standard storage mechanism.

The PR3 solution introduces a reporting solution which generates reports that are stored in a CDA format with RadLex codes for specific terms. It introduces explanations for these codes in a language specific dictionary which are mapped by RadLex codes. The generated report, if exported or shared (to EHR, media or if printed), will have two copies. One with the actual medical terms and another copy (PR3) with the terms mentioned in a user selected local dictionary. The local dictionary is extensible for any regional language (e.g. French, Spanish). The PR3 report also has a bold heading specifying that it is intended for the patient’s reference and should not be used for diagnostic purposes. The PR3 solution also supports user defined presentation of existing reports even when it is in a standardized report format thus allowing doctors to retain their preferred presentation format. Standardized reports are created in well accepted formats and are shareable seamlessly. The PR3 reports are compatible to allow patients to archive them in their own repositories (EHRs) in understandable formats for future referencing enabling patient empowerment.

Kollaikal, P, Leveraging RSNA’s RadLex Initiative to Enhance Interpretation of Radiology Reports by Creating Patient Readable Radiology Reports (PR3).  Radiological Society of North America 2010 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, November 28 - December 3, 2010 ,Chicago IL. http://archive.rsna.org/2010/9013794.html