- Conferences: Concepts
A conference is a recurring meeting of healthcare providers for the purpose of planning and implementing care for specific patients. A conference consists of participants, a schedule, and discussion tasks.
- Managing conferences
A conference is a recurring meeting of healthcare providers for the purpose of planning and implementing care for specific patients. You can add, modify, or remove conferences from Activities overviews.
- Creating or editing a conference
To create a conference, give it a name, select participants and administrators, and set a schedule. You can also edit conferences.
- Creating conference rules
Your administrator can define conference rules to automatically create conference discussion tasks.
- Manually adding discussion tasks to a conference
Rules might be defined to add certain types of discussion tasks to conferences automatically (configured by your administrator). You can add other discussion tasks to a conference as needed.
- Creating a conference schedule
You can create a schedule for a conference.
- Adding extra conference sessions
Conferences normally have regularly scheduled sessions, but you can add extra ones when needed.
- Rescheduling a conference session
Conferences can have regularly scheduled sessions. You can reschedule individual sessions as needed.
- Moving a discussion task to a later session
As presenter or administrator, you can select one or more discussion tasks to move to a later session.
- Removing a discussion task from a session list
As presenter or administrator, you can remove one or more discussion tasks from a conference session list. Removed discussion tasks are canceled.
- Performing a discussion task
During a conference session, you discuss studies added to the conference task list with colleagues and mark them as reviewed.
- Locking the session list
When you have fully prepared the conference or when the conference is about to start, you can lock the session list so that no new tasks can be added to it.
- Reviewing session details
Any user can review details of the current conference session. Presenters and administrators can change the session participants.
- Customizing session list columns
Although a session list is a task list, some columns are appropriate only in a session list; for example, Sequence and Snapshot available. You can customize the session list to display specific columns.
- Permissions in conferences: Reference
Each conference has one presenter and one or more administrators configured.
- Preparing, starting, and running conferences
Conferences are associated with activities overviews. When an activities overview containing conferences that you participate in is displayed in the right pane, a Conference label appears, with conference names below it.
- Start sharing a session
Sessions are not shared automatically. As presenter, you must start sharing a session.
- Joining a session
To view the screen of a presenter during a shared session, participants must join the session.
- Finding the link to join a session
Participants can join a session remotely by using a system-generated unique session link.
- Stop sharing a session
Once discussion tasks have been performed, you can stop sharing the session.
- Adding conference comments
When starting or opening a discussion task, you can use the Comments button to add conference comments.
