Abdominal ultrasound reporting
Abdominal ultrasound is high volume and organ-systematic: a radiology list can run forty studies, each covering eight organs, and the reporting burden is what limits throughput. NewVision transfers measurements from the machine, opens an organ-by-organ template with the numbers already in place, and delivers the finished report to the hospital system without a manual export step.
High-volume list? The time saving compounds per study. Ask us to model it against your daily case count. Request a radiology demo.
Reporting an abdominal list
The measurable gain in general ultrasound is roughly a 30% reduction in combined examination and report preparation time. It comes from three specific removals rather than from working faster.
| Removed step | Effect on the list |
|---|---|
| Typing patient data at the ultrasound console | Worklist selection instead; also eliminates the misspelled-name duplicates that pollute the archive |
| Dictating measurements to an assistant | Values transfer from the device, so the report contains the full measurement set rather than the memorable subset |
| Assembling and exporting the document | Template opens pre-filled; the signed report is transferred to the HIS or EMR automatically |
Organ coverage and measurement fields
Values populate automatically where the device transmits them in its Structured Report, and are measured on the archived images where it does not.
| Organ or system | Fields in the template |
|---|---|
| Liver | Span and lobe dimensions, echotexture and steatosis grading, focal lesion inventory with dimensions, capsule and surface |
| Biliary tree | Gallbladder dimensions and wall thickness, stone number and size, sludge, common bile duct diameter, intrahepatic duct dilatation |
| Pancreas | Head, body and tail assessment, duct diameter, focal lesions, peripancreatic fluid |
| Spleen | Length, splenic index, focal lesions |
| Kidneys — left and right | Length and width, parenchymal and cortical thickness, echogenicity, pelvicalyceal dilatation grade, stone and cyst dimensions |
| Bladder and prostate | Bladder volume, wall, post-void residual, prostate dimensions and calculated volume |
| Vessels | Aortic diameter with aneurysm documentation, portal vein diameter and flow direction, hepatic veins, IVC calibre and collapsibility |
| Doppler | Portal vein velocity, hepatic artery resistive index, renal artery indices |
| Other | Free fluid quantification, bowel and appendix assessment where scanned, lymphadenopathy, hernia documentation |
Templates
| Template | Use |
|---|---|
| Complete abdominal ultrasound | Standard organ-by-organ study with the full measurement set and normal-range comparison |
| Focused hepatobiliary | Right upper quadrant study — liver, gallbladder, ducts, portal flow |
| Renal and urinary | Kidneys, ureteric assessment, bladder and prostate, stone and dilatation documentation |
| Aortic screening | Diameter measurement with surveillance interval and comparison to previous |
| Thyroid and superficial | Lobe dimensions, per-nodule inventory with features, regional lymph nodes |
| Vascular Doppler | Velocity and index tables with vessel-specific reference values |
A distinct set of templates matters here: an abdominal report built by editing an obstetric one carries fields nobody needs and lacks the organ structure a radiologist reads by. See template configuration.
Comparison with previous studies
Surveillance work depends on interval change, and that only functions if the earlier measurement is still data.
- Aortic diameter across screening intervals, so growth rate is visible rather than recalculated by hand.
- Renal parenchymal thickness and dilatation grade over time in chronic disease.
- Liver lesion and cyst dimensions across follow-up scans.
- Thyroid nodule inventories where the question is whether a specific nodule changed, not whether nodules exist.
Fitting into a radiology department
| Concern | How it is handled |
|---|---|
| An enterprise PACS already exists | NewVision reports and forwards the series to it as a Storage SCU; it does not compete for the archive-of-record role |
| Multiple ultrasound rooms | Several capture stations writing to one shared archive, with reporting available from any station |
| Reporting away from the scanner | Studies are read and reported from any workstation on the network, and optionally remotely |
| Retention obligations | Redundant archive with institution-defined retention, so images survive device replacement |
| Hospital system integration | Worklist inbound, images and reports outbound over HL7 or API, including HBYS and e-Nabız in Turkey |
Frequently asked questions
We already have a PACS. What does this add?
The PACS stores images; it does not transfer measurements from the ultrasound machine or produce a structured report. NewVision handles the measurement and reporting layer and then hands the study to the PACS.
Does it support general radiology beyond abdomen?
Yes — thyroid and superficial structures, vascular Doppler, and musculoskeletal or soft-tissue documentation where the department scans them. Templates are selected per examination type.
Can several radiologists report from different rooms?
Yes. Capture and reporting are separate functions, so a study captured in one room is reported wherever the radiologist sits.
Are normal ranges built in?
Measurement tables carry reference values, and departments choose which published references to report against, because centres differ on this.
Which machines are validated?
GE Voluson, Canon (Toshiba) Aplio, Hitachi Arietta, and Philips and Samsung series. DICOM transfer was validated on a Toshiba system at Akdeniz University Faculty of Medicine, carrying patient data, SR content, images and video.
Is there a cardiology configuration?
Yes — see echocardiography reporting for chamber, function and valve measurement handling.
Model it against your list
Tell us your daily study count and machine models and we will show what the workflow looks like at that volume. Contact us · info@new-vision.net · +90 543 722 22 10
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