COMMONVIEW Overview
Introduction
COMMONVIEW provides a method of aggregating data from various databases or from the same database and presenting it in PowerJacket with a confidence level percentage that the studies belong to the same patient. Synapse uses a specific matching algorithm set by your System Administrator and presents the data to you with a Match Confidence percentage.
- COMMONVIEW is available from studies initiated in both global and local Worklists.
COMMONVIEW is activated by your System Administrator, who also configures the patient Matching Algorithm (Match Option and Match Confidence) settings.
- With Enterprise COMMONVIEW activated and configured and the datasources selected, you can view studies in PowerJacket belonging to the same patient but stored over multiple datasources.
- With Internal COMMONVIEW activated, you can view studies belonging to the same patient that have different identifier information but are stored on a single datasource.
- When you group studies in PowerJacket (using auto-compare, related procedure codes, and modality grouping), Synapse displays studies from all of the configured and selected datasources.
- The Anywhere Series Picker and PowerJacket display thumbnails from all of the configured and selected datasources.
COMMONVIEW results display in two additional PowerJacket columns:
- The Match % column displays the match percentage results.
- The Source column displays the datasource in which a patient's studies are located.
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The privileges you have for viewing, creating, editing, and deleting notes, documents, and reports are honored in all of the datasources configured for COMMONVIEW. Notes, documents, and reports display from across the datasources configured for COMMONVIEW and stored in your home datasource. |
How COMMONVIEW Works
Matching Algorithms
The matching algorithm is the logic used to identify the patient if a site receives a Group Search (COMMONVIEW Search) request. This algorithm is different from the matching logic that is used for the patient matching algorithm when Synapse receives data from RIS or DICOM. All active matching algorithms are used with the Or condition.
Your System Administrator configures the datasources on which matching logic is based. System Administrators can create their own matching algorithms based on a number of criteria, and select any of the configured datasources as Exact or Best.
COMMONVIEW Feature Limitations
- All sites must have the same version of the Synapse system installed.
- If a site configures COMMONVIEW and makes the datasources available for COMMONVIEW, those same datasources are also available for Global Worklists. If you choose to deselect any of the available datasources for Global Worklists, those same datasources are no longer available for use with COMMONVIEW.
- The list that displays in the PowerJacket is a concatenated list of items returned from all COMMONVIEW-activated datasources. If one datasource has multiple OR connected matching algorithms, the same study might belong to more than one matching algorithm and items in the list might be duplicated.
- As the workstation displays the entire list, including items which come from the COMMONVIEW datasource, if the network is slow or the datasource is not available, PowerJacket will be slow.
- COMMONVIEW can be used from a Synapse datasource to a DICOM datasource but this feature is not supported in the reverse direction.
- If a DICOM datasource is used as a Group Search destination, only the patient's full name is used for matching and the match confidence value is always 100 percent.
- COMMONVIEW is not available in the case of VNA studies that do not include a patient name.
Related Topics
Opening a Study from the Worklist or PowerJacket