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Scheduling events in the Calendar
Review scheduled procedures and conference sessions in the Calendar.
Holding and participating in conferences
Use conferences to improve patient care by sharing information.
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.

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Consulting studies
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Order information provides procedural details relating to images being taken.
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View, modify, and switch procedure plans.
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Scheduling events in the Calendar
Review scheduled procedures and conference sessions in the Calendar.
- Reviewing scheduled events in the Calendar
  Use the Calendar to view color-coded scheduled procedures and conferences.
- Calendar color legend
  Different background colors of Calendar event boxes indicate the status of a procedure.
- Holding and participating in conferences
  Use conferences to improve patient care by sharing information.
  - 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.
Radiation management
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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.
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Finding studies
To find studies, use either the simple or the advanced search interface.
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Conferences: ConceptsTopic number: 1425411706685

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.

Characteristics of conferences

A conference is part of an Activities overview.
One conference can have multiple occurrences scheduled. These are called conference sessions.
Each conference session has a list of discussion tasks. Only discussion tasks can appear in a conference list.
Discussion tasks are linked to studies to be discussed during the conference session.
Discussion tasks can be manually added to a session or, by configuring conference rules, automatically. Your administrator configures conference rules.
During each conference session, discussion tasks (and related tasks such as readings and sign off) are performed.
A maximum of 300 scheduled sessions can be displayed at a time.

Conference configuration

Because conferences are associated with Activities overviews, they are configured through the Activities overview screen, on a Conferences tab. Conferences can be configured in all desktops, providing users have the permission Can configure activities overviews and conferences.

Calendar view

In Calendar view, conferences appear in the Activities overview area (left pane), as well as in the calendar body, according to session date and time.

Example

Multi-disciplinary meeting: A daily meeting where all ICU patients are discussed by a multi-disciplinary team.
Tumor board conference: A monthly meeting with different experts that results in either a diagnosis, agreement on the best treatment plan, or a significant adaptation of the treatment plan for each discussed patient.
Internal quality control conference: A discussion of cases identified as good or poor examples of standards, image quality, or patient positioning. During this meeting, the focus is on how to improve future performance.
Teaching conference: A meeting where the focus is on teaching, rather than patient care. The audience can be diverse, such as members of the bio-engineering department, radiological technologists, medical students, trainee radiologists, or another group of physicians.