Support of clinician image-related workflow by a user-edited, web-based patient list manager.

Clinician efficiency can be enhanced by worklists that compile useful data for rapid access at the time of need. The authors report development of a web-based, user-edited "Patient List Manager" for the Clinical Image Management System (CIMS). The CIMS List Manager interfaces with the CIMS Archive to provide the user with available studies. It has tools that let the user build personal lists from the available studies. Listed studies are moved from the archive to the cache for rapid access at the time of need. Users can build/edit the list through a browser (without viewing pictures) or from within the image viewer. In this way, the List Manager distributes list building into knowledgeable hands. This is particularly valuable at the current time when health system patient registries are not mature enough to reliably support building build anticipatory patient lists.