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Understanding Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging
Learn the basic concepts of Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging.
Working through lists
Learn how to start, pause, complete, and cancel task; navigate through tasks or studies; filter lists, and set priorities by following typical actions such as filtering, prioritizing, and starting tasks.

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The Diagnostic Desktop combines the features of a RIS, PACS, and reporting program into a seamless, single program for medical imaging departments.
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Understanding Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging
Learn the basic concepts of Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging.
- What is Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging?
  Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging combines all information, image viewing, speech recognition, and transcription features into a seamless, single application based on the workflow of a medical imaging department.
- Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging: Key concepts
  The key concepts for understanding Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging include tasks, workflow, and hanging protocols.
- Collaborator: Frequently asked questions
  Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging Collaborator is an instant messaging communication tool that appears by default on all desktops to facilitate text messaging and information sharing between patients, hospital staff, and family doctors.
- Working through lists
  Learn how to start, pause, complete, and cancel task; navigate through tasks or studies; filter lists, and set priorities by following typical actions such as filtering, prioritizing, and starting tasks.
  - Filtering and sorting task lists
    Task lists can contain many items. To make it easier to find a particular item in a list, you can filter the list to reduce what is displayed, or sort the list on particular column heading.
  - Prioritizing tasks
    Change the urgency of a task by changing its assigned priority.
  - Opening tasks
    Open a task to view the details of the task. Opening a task does not start work on the task.
  - Starting tasks, task lists, and collections
    You can navigate through tasks in several ways: you can either work through a list or a selection of tasks or randomly pick an individual task.
  - Identifying Tuberculosis Screening Prioritization
    Tuberculosis (TBC) Screening Prioritization is a licensed feature. It orders TBC Screening Prioritization results based on reading task priority.
Organizing your work
Complete your work with tasks, optimize your workflow, and communicate with others who work on tasks.
Consulting studies
You can consult studies and compare them to the active ones.
Processing orders
Order information provides procedural details relating to images being taken.
Printing procedures and study labels
You can print selected procedures as well as the study label with a barcode.
Working with procedure plans
View, modify, and switch procedure plans.
Managing attachments
Use attachments to collect and communicate additional information about the patient, study, order, report, or procedure.
Reporting
Learn how to consult patient data, and work with reports to create your diagnosis.
Reading images
To view and analyze images, use the Image area tools.
Learning and improvement
Peer learning workflows and teaching files can be used within Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging.
Scheduling events in the Calendar
Review scheduled procedures and conference sessions in the Calendar.
Radiation management
You can keep track of the total amount of radiation a patient has received.
Performing quality control
Quality control is a process of aligning the data about patients with their images, which come from different sources. Quality control is an automatic step in the unverified study workflow, but it can also be performed manually.
Accessing desktop integrations from client desktops
You can access and use third-party applications that are integrated with Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging from client desktops.
Finding studies
To find studies, use either the simple or the advanced search interface.
Customizing the desktop look and feel options
Define Collaborator, list, and search options at the user, desktop, or system level.
Maintaining security and access
In Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging, sets of access-controlled features are combined into permission sets. One or more permission sets are included security roles. Security roles are assigned to users.
Troubleshooting: Log files and known limitations
Use system log files supplied with Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging for basic troubleshooting.
Keyboard shortcuts
Use the keyboard shortcuts for quick access to your everyday tasks.
Testing the connection speed
Your administrator might ask you to communicate the bandwidth and latency values to optimize the configuration for your workstation in Administrator desktop.
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Working through listsTopic number: 1425411629593

Learn how to start, pause, complete, and cancel task; navigate through tasks or studies; filter lists, and set priorities by following typical actions such as filtering, prioritizing, and starting tasks.