Most sites prefer to delay making a report available so that patients, to allow ample time for a patient to return to their doctor. Occasionally you will be asked to release a report before the normal delay has elapsed. Before releasing a report, you MUST obtain the radiology practice's written consent to do so. Once consent is obtained, you can follow this procedure:
- To do so you first want to have the patient portal open on the profile of the patient.
- Then select the study that the report you wish to release is attached to. This will open up the study details page.
- Click on the blue actions button on the right hand side.
- This will bring up a small menu where one of the options is to release the report.