Send an Imaging Order to the Modality Worklist

Who / when: the routing is automatic — the physician simply signs the order — and the radiographer is the person who finds that order already waiting on their scanner. This page covers how an imaging order travels from the chart to the machine. Just as a lab order goes down to an analyzer, an imaging order goes down to the modality (the scanner — a CT, an X-ray, an ultrasound) through its worklist, so the radiographer never re-keys the patient’s details or the study at the console; they’re already there, pushed down from Veona.

When the physician signs a requisition (see Order a Mixed Batch of Labs and Imaging at Once), each imaging line is handed to Veona Connect, the device-integration hub that links your scanners to Veona.

1. Physician — sign the order. That’s the entire physician action. Connect places the study on the modality’s worklist using MWL (the DICOM Modality Worklist — the standard mechanism by which a scanner pulls its list of scheduled studies, where DICOM is Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine, the universal image and study standard).
2. Physician — the on-screen receipt confirms the routing. The imaging line shows it was queued to the worklist, names the target modality it routed to, and shows the accession number the study will carry. That accession is what later matches the acquired images back to this order.
3. Radiographer — open Imaging → Imaging Worklist. The ordered study is there, with the patient, the procedure, the laterality (Left, Right or Bilateral) and the clinical indication the physician entered — everything needed to position and scan correctly.
4. Radiographer — at the scanner console, select the patient from the modality’s own worklist. Because the order was pushed down via MWL, the patient demographics and the study description populate automatically; you don’t type them in.

Note

The clinical indication the physician wrote on the requisition travels down with the order, so the radiographer (and later the radiologist) reads with the clinical question in front of them — “query gallstones”, “rule out fracture” — rather than scanning blind.

Tip

A scanner is just another connected device to Veona. Running imaging modalities through the Connect hub — registering them, testing the link, and seeing their live status — works exactly like analyzers and is covered in Run Imaging Modalities Through the Connect Hub.

What happens next

With the study on the worklist, the radiographer acquires the images and the modality sends them up to Veona, where they’re matched to this order by accession; the radiologist then reads and reports. That whole leg — acquire, match, draft, sign — is covered in Receive a Study, Write the Report and Sign It. If the appointment needs to move or the study is no longer required, see Reschedule or Cancel an Imaging Study.

Follow the trail

• Previous: Order a Mixed Batch of Labs and Imaging at Once
• Next: Receive a Study, Write the Report and Sign It
• Related: Run Imaging Modalities Through the Connect Hub
• Related: Send a Lab Order Down to the Analyzer