What's New in 5.3.000

Synapse 5.3.000 introduces many new features and innovations for the Worklist, PowerJacket, and the Viewer. Click a link to go directly to the topic of your choice and read more about it.

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Synapse Chat

Synapse Chat provides the ability for Synapse users to communicate with one another within the Synapse application. You can initiate a chat with another active user or users, or even start a conversation with someone who is offline, but can receive the chat once they log on. When you need instant feedback or another set of eyes, use Synapse Chat to brainstorm, think out loud, and share ideas. To provide a quick visual for clarity and understanding, you can add snapshots and screen shots to a chat.

  • Click the Synapse Chat icon from your preferred location in the Worklist, PowerJacket, or Viewer.
  • When a chat session is open, a blue dot on the Synapse Chat icon alerts you to a new chat session or to new contents in your current chat session.
  • Dynamic typing helps you to quickly locate and add users to Synapse Chat.
  • A bright green icon displays next to logged in users' names, so you can easily identify who is active and who is inactive.
  • Synapse Chat search functionality makes it easy to locate any information contained in a chat you initiate or participate in.
  • Sharing images within Synapse Chat provides clarity with the assurance that everyone is referencing the same issue.
  • Synapse Chat is available from the Worklist, PowerJacket, and the Viewer.
  • Chat threads update automatically with the latest content.
  • Synapse saves your chat window size and position.

Synapse Chat Overview

Worklist

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Workflow Enhancements

Configure your workflow settings so you can skip studies that are reserved for other users. Select Skip studies currently displayed by others in the Automatic Display section to ignore any unread studies that other users with dictation privileges are currently viewing (when using the automated workflow).

You can continue a study that you previously started and easily find it again in your Reservations Worklist at a later time.

Synapse now supports Draft and Preliminary PowerScribe workflows.

Configuring Workflow Settings

 

Draft Status Handling for PowerScribe Users

F2 Shortcut Key

Support for Group Study Dictation Workflow has been discontinued.

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PowerJacket 

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Dictated By Column

PowerJacket includes a column labeled Dictated By. Use the Dictated By column in conjunction with the Status column to quickly identify who signed a report and its current status. If your dictation system is capable of sending both primary interpreter and secondary interpreter fields, Synapse will use those fields to display information in the following way:

Click the Preliminary button

Synapse looks first for the secondary interpreter field and uses that information to populate the Dictated By column.

If no secondary interpreter information is available, Synapse uses the primary interpreter field to populate the Dictated By column.

Click the Finalized button:

Synapse uses the information in the primary interpreter field to populate the Dictated By column.

Note: When a report is finalized, Synapse updates the Status column and it updates the Dictated By column using the primary interpreter field.

Draft Status Handling for PowerScribe Users

Viewer

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Reading Protocol Editor Enhancements

Reorganized the Reading Protocol Editor and save dialog box workflow to be more intuitive. All viewport options, including the ability to add multiple DICOM rules for Series Description, are now available in the Reading Protocol Editor per modality.

Using the Reading Protocol Editor

Annotation Customizations

In the User Settings, you can customize which measurements display and the order of the displayed measurements for the following annotations:

  • Circle

  • Elliptical ROI

  • Freehand ROI

  • Polygonal ROI

  • 2 Point ROI

  • Rectangular ROI

Configuring Annotations Settings

Mouse Button Customizations

You can customize behavior of the left, middle, and right mouse buttons to fit your needs. For example, you can select Drag to Swap for the left mouse button so you do not have to use the image context menu for swap.

Configuring Mouse Settings

Image and Series Sorting

Synapse sorts images and series using a sorting priority.

Image and Series Sorting

IntelliScroll Enhancements

Synapse now has ability to link image for IntelliScroll by image index.

IntelliScroll Overview

Enabling IntelliScroll

Image Icon Menu Enhancements

You can customize the icon menu by creating a new icon page and then adding the icons that are most useful to you.

Customizing the Image Icon Menu

New Keyboard Shortcuts

  • Shortcut: /
    • Includes tumbling when cycling through the different orthogonal planes: axial, coronal, sagittal, tumbling.
  • Shortcut: 4
    • Toggles between 2D and 3D quadrant view.
  • Shortcut: 2
    • Toggles between 2D and breast tomosynthesis.

Keyboard Shortcuts for MG

Keyboard Shortcuts for MPR View