Vista Imaging Vista Routing manual VistARad & On-Demand Routing, On-Demand Routing Requirements

Routing User Guide Using VistARad in a Routing System

VistARad & On-Demand Routing

This section describes on-demand routing prerequisites and explains how to use VistARad’s on-demand routing capability.

!US Federal regulations and VA internal policy prohibit unencrypted transmission of patient information outside the VA's intranet.

!Like autorouting, on-demand routing can have a significant impact on network traffic. It is the responsibility of sites using routing to properly manage network demands related to routing.

On-Demand Routing Requirements

For on-demand routing to function:

ƒA VistARad user must be logged into an Imaging system that includes a Routing Gateway.

ƒAt the site being logged into, the VistA Imaging host, the Routing Gateway, and storage folders must be set up as described in this manual. The Routing Gateway’s transmission processor must be running.

ƒTo route images to other non-DICOM destinations within the VistA system (such as VistARad at a remote site) a VistARad user must have the MAGJ DEMAND ROUTE security key assigned to their account. To route images to a DICOM Storage SCP destination, the MAGJ DEMAND ROUTE DICOM key must be assigned to their account.

Using On-Demand Routing

On-demand routing lets you use VistARad to manually select exams and transmit them to existing routing destinations. On-demand routing is intended for situations where you need to route exams that do not satisfy existing routing rules, or where autorouting is not used.

ÂIf you are frequently using on-demand routing for the same sorts of exams, contact your Imaging Coordinator and request that a change or addition be made to the rules used for autorouting.

Any exam that appears in a VistARad exam list can be routed on-demand. Newly acquired exams should not be routed until they have been case edited by a technologist using the Radiology package. Such exams have a status of “examined” in VistARad’s exam lists.

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