Radiology Information System (RIS)

A radiology information system runs the imaging department's work — requests, scheduling, accession numbers, the radiologist's report and the bill. EloHIMS puts it on the hospital record for X-ray, ultrasound, CT and MRI: orders arrive from OPD, wards and emergency, each exam can carry its own accession number, and the verified report goes back to the doctor who asked for it. The images stay in your PACS, one click away.

RIS software for ordering, scheduling and reporting

Orders from OPD, wards and ER

In the consultation, imaging is requested alongside lab tests with Routine, Urgent or STAT priority and clinical notes, so the radiologist sees the clinical question with the request. Imaging ordered on the inpatient chart becomes a real order on the radiology worklist, tagged as a ward order, and is charged to the admission rather than to a separate cash bill.

From the emergency department, imaging orders default to STAT and sort first on the worklist. Their charges pool on the ER running bill and, if the patient is admitted, move to the admission without being billed twice.

Accession numbers and modality worklist export

With the PACS link switched on, every exam gets its own accession number — IMG-yymmdd-NNN, kept within DICOM's 16-character limit — when it is booked, arrives, is performed or is exported. A CT and an X-ray on the same order are two exams with two accession numbers.

The modality worklist exports in two formats: a CSV using DICOM attribute names and conventions (Family^Given names, YYYYMMDD dates, M/F/O sex, DICOM modality codes), or HL7 ORM^O01 messages. Your modality or PACS imports the file, so the technologist does not retype the patient. A live DICOM Modality Worklist (MWL) service is not part of EloHIMS; the export is how the worklist reaches the modality.

Open studies in your PACS viewer

EloHIMS does not store images; it links to the PACS that does. Under Imaging Catalogue › PACS link, the hospital enters its viewer's web address as a pattern — with placeholders for the Study Instance UID, the accession number or the MRN — and previews it before saving. A malformed address is refused.

At perform, the technologist records the Study Instance UID, or links it later. A malformed UID, or one already linked to another exam, is refused. From then on the Images button on the exam opens that study in your viewer. The link is available per hospital and off by default; switched off, nothing changes, and recorded UIDs are kept for when it is switched back on.

Reporting and tele-reporting

Radiologists report against templates and sign off their findings; only verified reports reach the patient's record. Where the hospital does not have a radiologist on site for every modality or every shift, tele-reporting (Imaging Catalogue › Tele-reporting) lets a manager or verifier assign an exam to a radiologist reporting from elsewhere — any user who holds the report right.

The assigned radiologist is told in the app and finds the exam on My Reporting. Only they, or a manager, can write or sign that report, and every assignment goes into the exam's timeline, so it is always clear who reported what.

Report ready → the doctor's inbox and the patient

When a report is verified, the ordering doctor gets a row in the Results Inbox on My Day. Several exams on one order merge into the doctor's unseen row instead of arriving one by one. Opening it lands on the consultation that ordered the study, with the verified report in the Results panel; a signed note takes a dated addendum without altering the original.

The patient can be told the report is ready through the hospital's own SMS or WhatsApp notification rule. Where the patient portal is switched on, the patient signs in with their MR number and a one-time code sent to the mobile number on file, and sees verified reports only — alongside appointments, bills and receipts.

No scattered forms, no lost reports

In many hospitals a scan is requested on paper, scheduled in someone's head, and reported into a folder the ordering doctor never reliably sees. EloHIMS puts the whole exam on one rail: the order is created inside the consultation, ward chart or ER visit, the study is booked onto the right modality, and the radiologist's verified report lands back where the request came from — on the patient's record and on the bill.

Because it shares the same identity, billing and command-centre backbone as the lab and the wards, radiology throughput and turnaround become measurable — and every study is charged where it was ordered.