Order Grouping

Group orders are multiple orders performed as a single imaging procedure. When a RIS submits orders to eRAD PACS, it can mark orders that will become a single grouped order. When the individual orders are marked as a grouped order, the system will recognize them and behave accordingly, merging the orders.  

Use the Order Grouping function when:

• RIS is unable to support this configuration
• Multiple orders appear on the eRAD PACS worklist need to be grouped

To group order studies:

1. Select Worklist/Order Grouping
2. Check the boxes on the far left of the row containing the order to group two or more together
3. Click the Create group icon

Each order still exists on the main worklist in order to review and edit separately.

To ungroup a grouped order:

1. Click the Order Grouping tab to display the group orders page
2. Find the designated order group
3. Check the boxes next to the order/orders to ungroup
4. Select the Ungroup icon

To remove more than one order from the existing group and group them into their own group:

1. Check the boxes for the studies to remove
2. Click the Split button

The two groups now appear on the group list. When an image set arrives for any one of the orders, as identified by the Study UID or when merged into the order, automatically or manually, all the orders disappear from the worklist. eRAD PACS tracks the image set as corresponding to all orders in the group, so when it updates the RIS with a status or a report, it sends the update once for each order attached to the image set.