Before every STAT report submits
- Laterality checked between findings and impression
- Internal contradictions flagged
- Nothing significant left out of the impression
- Critical findings surfaced and alerted
For emergency and STAT coverage
The STAT report, in three clicks.
ClickMatic floats over your viewer. Pick the finding, where it is, and one detail. The sentence is written, the impression follows, and the ED has its answer while the next study is loading.
- Two or three clicks per finding
- Eyes stay on the images
- Impression built from your clicks
- Critical results flagged before you sign
01Why this exists
In the ED, the report takes longer than the read
You see the pneumothorax in seconds. Then you look away from the image to dictate it, wait for recognition, read it back, fix "right" that came out as "bright", and write an impression that repeats what you just said. Meanwhile the ED is on the phone asking for the read.
On a quiet night that is an annoyance. When the trauma bay is full and the STAT queue is twelve deep, it is the bottleneck. Every minute spent on the words is a minute a patient waits in the department.
The fastest STAT report is the one you never had to type, dictate, or correct.
02How ClickMatic works
Finding, location, detail. Done.
ClickMatic opens as a small widget right over your PACS viewer. Each click narrows the finding, and the last one writes the sentence into the report in the background. No window switching, no losing your place on the scan.
1
Pick the finding
The menu shows the findings for the study in front of you. Hemorrhage, pneumothorax, fracture, whatever you see.
2
Pick where it is
Side, lobe, level, or segment. Laterality is a click, not a word that recognition can flip.
3
Pick the detail
Size, severity, or character. The sentence is written in precise wording, at 3am the same as at 3pm.
03On a real shift
What the common ED reads look like in clicks
The studies that fill an emergency queue, and the clicks it takes to report the positive finding.
Chest radiograph
1 Pneumothorax 2 Right 3 Large
Large right pneumothorax.
CT head
1 Subdural hematoma 2 Left 3 6 mm
Acute left subdural hematoma measuring 6 mm in maximal thickness.
CT abdomen
1 Appendix 2 Dilated 3 Fat stranding
Dilated appendix with periappendiceal fat stranding, consistent with acute appendicitis.
Wrist radiograph
1 Distal radius fracture 2 Dorsal angulation
Fracture of the distal radius with dorsal angulation.
Illustrative click paths. Wording follows your templates and reporting style.
04The impression
The impression is written before you get to it
The same clicks that wrote the findings build the impression. Every line traces back to something you selected, so there is nothing predicted and nothing fabricated to read back and correct.
Critical findings are surfaced before you sign, so the pneumothorax that needs a phone call to the ED does not leave quietly buried in the body of the report.
05Speed with a safety net
Fast does not mean unchecked
Hurry produces a predictable error: a right sided finding with a left sided impression, or a conclusion that forgets a finding. SkiaQA reads every STAT report against your consistency rules before it submits, in seconds, at 3am exactly as at 3pm.
And when a critical result is reported, the people who need to know hear about it straight away, on the channel they already watch, so the closed loop closes while the patient is still in the department.
What changes
STAT speed, without the correction pass
- 2 to 3
- Clicks per finding
- 70 to 90%
- Impressions generated from your clicks
- 30 to 40%
- Faster reporting
- Every
- STAT report checked before it submits
Reporting figures observed in early deployments. Results vary by case mix, modality, and team.
A real report, built by clicking findings. 19 seconds.
06Common questions
Asked by every ED team we meet
Is it really two or three clicks?
For a typical finding, yes: the finding, where it is, and one detail such as size or severity. ClickMatic writes the sentence from those clicks. A study with several findings takes a few clicks for each one.
What is ClickMatic?
ClickMatic is the click to report engine in SkiaReporter. It opens as cascading menus in a small widget over your PACS viewer, or inside the SkiaReporter editor. Each selection writes clinically precise wording into the report.
What if the finding I need is not in the menu?
Every report stays fully editable. Type anything the menus do not cover, and personal templates let each radiologist add the findings they report most.
Who writes the impression?
It is assembled from the findings you clicked, so every line traces back to a selection. Nothing is predicted and nothing is fabricated. You review it and have the final say before submit.
Does reporting this fast hurt quality?
The speed comes from removing typing and correction, not from rushing the read. SkiaQA then checks every report for laterality, contradictions, and findings the impression missed before it submits.
What happens with critical results?
Critical findings are surfaced before you sign, and the people who need to know can be alerted the instant one is reported, on Messages, WhatsApp, Slack, Telegram, or email. The call to the ED happens now, not when someone reads the report.
What about the negatives? Most of the queue is normal.
The right template loads for the study with its normal statements already in place, so a negative read is a review and a sign, not a report written from scratch.
Does this work for prelims and wet reads overnight?
Yes. A prelim is built from the same clicks and checked the same way as a final, so the wording holds up when the day team reads it back.
How long does it take to go live?
No setup fees, no IT project, no training required. Most teams are live within 48 hours, and your data never leaves your PACS.
07Further reading
Go deeper on the problems this solves
Emergency radiology reporting: a practical STAT guide
A practical guide to emergency radiology reporting covering STAT workflow, on-call pressures, turnaround, report quality, and clearer ED communication.
Read articleWorklist vigilance in ED coverage: the shift nobody counts
Why ED worklist vigilance drains attention across a shift, where queue watching creates risk, and how notification driven coverage changes ED coverage.
Read articleReporting under time pressure: keeping STAT wording clear
Why reporting under time pressure drifts toward ambiguity in emergency radiology, and how constrained input keeps urgent report wording clinically precise.
Read articleHurry contradictions in STAT reports: where they come from
Why contradictions in STAT reports cluster under hurry, how findings and impressions drift apart, and what a pre submit QA check catches before submission.
Read articleHow other teams use Skia
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Report a STAT study in three clicks
Twenty minutes, your own ED case mix, trauma pan scans included. Count the clicks yourself.