Report Templates

Introduction

Report Templates provide a modern interface through which to dictate findings and communicate those findings effectively to both patients and referring providers. Historically, radiology reports have been walls of text that are difficult for patients and providers to interpret. AutoScribe’s templates solve this problem by allowing readers to create structured reports with multiple sections and visual element enhancements.

Report Templates enable you to create aesthetically pleasing, modern reports with icons for each section, section severity classifications, and — most importantly — images. Users can copy images directly from their diagnostic viewer or the Avara Viewer to their clipboard and paste them directly into the report. A report can contain any number of images, providing both visual and clinical enhancements that dramatically improve report interpretability and clinical utility.

Templates can be created from scratch or initialized with colleagues’ report templates or prebuilt templates available in the platform. Templates can also be shared across organizations for consistency, ensuring that all readers within an organization follow standardized reporting practices.

Template Builder

The Template Builder is the visual interface for creating and customizing report templates. It provides intuitive drag-and-drop functionality for organizing sections and content.

Section Management

In the Template Builder, you can:

• Drag and drop sections to reorder them within your template
• Add section dividers for large reports to improve organization and readability
• Add description boxes to provide informational context for any report reader — whether patient or provider — helping explain sections or provide additional guidance

Visual Enhancements

Each template section is enhanced with:

• Icons to visually identify and distinguish sections
• Section severity classifications to provide context about finding significance
• Modern aesthetic design that improves readability and professional appearance

Editing Reports

When creating a report from a template, only section content can be edited directly. Section titles, section dividers, and description boxes are configured in the Template Builder and cannot be modified during report creation. This ensures consistency across reports while allowing readers to focus on dictating findings and observations within each section.

Macros

Each template can have its own macros — predefined paragraphs that load automatically when a report is initialized. Macros streamline your workflow by pre-populating common content, reducing dictation time and ensuring consistency.

Standard Macros

Standard macros are predefined paragraphs that load into specified sections when a report is initialized. You can configure which macros load into which sections directly in the Template Builder.

No Adverse Macros

No adverse macros are special macros that are automatically injected when a user classifies a section as “No Adverse Findings.” These macros can be configured per section in the Template Builder with two merge options:

• Always merge: The macro content loads in addition to any existing content in the section
• Only if empty: The macro content loads only if the section is empty when classified as no adverse findings

This allows you to provide standardized language for normal findings while maintaining flexibility for cases where additional content has already been dictated.

Macro Management

In the Template Builder, you can:

• Drag and drop paragraphs within sections to reorder macro content
• Configure macros per section to customize which content loads where
• Set merge conditions for no adverse macros to control when and how they’re applied

Images

Images are a powerful enhancement to radiology reports, providing both visual and clinical value. Users can copy images directly from their diagnostic viewer or the Avara Viewer to their clipboard and paste them directly into any section of the report.

Adding Images

To add images to a report:

1. Copy an image from your diagnostic viewer or Avara Viewer to your clipboard
2. Navigate to the desired section in your report
3. Click “Add Image” to open the image insertion dialog
4. Paste the image into the dialog to insert it into the section

A report can contain any number of images, allowing you to include relevant visual findings, measurements, annotations, or comparisons directly within the report text. This visual context helps both patients and referring providers better understand the findings and their significance.

Creating & Sharing Templates

Templates can be created from scratch or initialized from existing templates:

• Create from scratch: Build a completely custom template tailored to your specific needs
• Initialize from colleagues’ templates: Start with a template created by a colleague and customize it for your use
• Use prebuilt templates: Begin with one of the prebuilt templates available in the platform

Templates can be shared across organizations to ensure consistency in reporting practices. To make a template accessible across your organization, enable clinic-wide access in the template viewer. Clinic-wide access can be disabled at any time if needed. This allows teams to standardize on proven template structures while maintaining the flexibility to customize templates for specific use cases or readers.