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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.
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.

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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.
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.
- 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
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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Locking the session listTopic number: 1425411745656

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.

Only conference presenters and administrators can lock a session.

To lock the session list

In the Conferences section of Activities overviews, select the conference to modify.
In the top toolbar, click Lock.
The button name changes to Unlock.
Even while locked, you as presenter can still change the task sequence, remove a task, move a task to another session, edit session details, and unlock a session list again.
To unlock the session, click Unlock.