Design requirements for radiology workstations.

This article stresses the importance of capturing feedback from representative users in the early stages of product development. We present our solution to producing quality requirement specifications for radiology workstations, specifications that remain valid over time because we successfully anti...

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Publicado en:Journal of Digital Imaging Vol. 17; no. 2; pp. 92 - 100
Autores principales: Moise A, Atkins MS
Formato: questionnaire/scale research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Springer Nature Jun2004
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        affil: Department of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada; amoise@cs.sfu.ca
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          Systems Analysis
          Computer Systems
          Picture Archiving and Communication Systems
          Physician Attitudes
          Attitude Measures
          Consumer Satisfaction
          Workload
          Computer Terminals
          Data Display
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          Image Processing, Computer Assisted
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      ab: This article stresses the importance of capturing feedback from representative users in the early stages of product development. We present our solution to producing quality requirement specifications for radiology workstations, specifications that remain valid over time because we successfully anticipated the industry trends and the user's needs. We present the results from a user study performed in December 1999 in a radiology clinic equipped with state-of-the-art Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) and imaging scanners. The study involved eight radiologists who answered questions and provided comments on three complementary research topics. First, we asked our subjects to enumerate the advantages and the disadvantages for both softcopy and hardcopy reading. We identified the two major factors for productivity improvement through the use of PACS workstations: workflow re-engineering and process automation. Second, we collected radiologist feedback on the use of hanging protocols (HPs). The results indicated the high importance of automatic image organization through HPs, with the potential effect of reducing the interpretation time by 10-20%. Our subjects estimated that 10-15 HPs would cover about 85%-95% of the regular radiological examinations. Third, we investigated the impact of the display devices on the radiologist's workflow. Our results indicated that the number and the properties of the monitors is a modality-specific requirement. The main results from this study on key functional requirements for softcopy interpretation only recently were incorporated in most of the current, successful PACS workstations.
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