PACS IMPLEMENTATION ON PATIENT DOSE MANAGEMENT PROCESS AT SILOAM HOSPITALS LIPPO VILLAGE

Abstract

PACS IMPLEMENTATION ON PATIENT DOSE MANAGEMENT PROCESS AT SILOAM HOSPITALS LIPPO VILLAGE. In order to provide services that prioritize patient safety, radiology department of Siloam Hospitals Lippo Village is committed to manage patient dose radiation. Radiation dose management applications is one of three principles of radiation protection, namely optimization. The determination of DRL (diagnostic reference level) is the application of the optimization principle. Radiation management includes several stages, starting from documentation of data inspection, data processing, data analysis, evaluation of local DRL. Consistent and systematic monitoring of radiation dose is needed to improve the quality of radiology services. Siloam Hospitals Lippo Village using PACS (Picture archiving communication system) in the process of documentation data. The documentation process utilizes the technote feature in the INFINITT PACS Software. By using an agreed writing format, the radiographer as a user writes a technote on the PACS which contains information including name, medical record number, weight, type of examination, estimated exposure factor (kV, mA etc.) and dose information (DAP, CTDI, DLP), KERMA water etc.). The patient dose data information has been adjusted to the BAPETEN Si-INTAN application. All of this stages require collaboration and consistency between radiology specialists, radiographers, medical physicists and the IT team. Through this method, dose management process can be made easier. This is because technote can be processed on excel worksheet. So that it can be said that using PACS technote has been proven to be able to make the radiation dose management process more effective and efficient. Keywords: PACS, DRL, Radiology, SI-INTAN, Technote