Specialty
A specialty is a specific area of expertise. Teleradiology providers often assign studies to their team of radiologists based on their specialties.
Filtering by Specialty
You can filter the worklist for studies by specialty. Each specialty has a code within the application. The list below indicates the predefined specialties available in the worklist filter.
Specialty Code
Specialty Name
ABDO
Abdominal Radiology
BQ
Biomarkers/Quantitative Imaging
BODY
Body Imaging
BREAST
Breast Imaging
CHEST
Chest/Thoracic Radiology
CTH
Cardiothoracic Radiology
CVA
Cardiovascular Radiology
ER
Emergency Radiology (Trauma)
GI
Gastrointestinal Radiology
GEN
General Radiology
GU
Genito-urinary Radiology
HN
Head and neck Radiology
MSK
MSK Radiology (Musculoskeletal) (Orthopaedic)
NEURO
Neuroradiology
NUC
Nuclear Medicine/Radiology
OB
OB-Gyn radiology
OT
Other
PEADS
Pediatric Radiology
VAIR
Vascular and Interventional Radiology
ONCO
(Radiation) Oncology
Linking a specialty to a study
Specialties can only be linked via incoming ORM. Users cannot manually link a specialty to a study within the application.
You can link multiple specialties to a study.
In the specialty column of the worklist overview, only the specialty code of the linked study (e.g., GEN) is displayed, not the specialty name (e.g., General Radiology).