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The Diagnostic Desktop is a single point of entry for all information, image viewing, and speech recognition features related to medical imaging.
Text area: Take a tour
To work in the Text area, from the List area, start any task or open a study.

Diagnostic Desktop Help
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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New to Diagnostic Desktop: Start here
The Diagnostic Desktop is a single point of entry for all information, image viewing, and speech recognition features related to medical imaging.
- List area: Take a tour
  When the desktop opens, the List area appears. The List area is a dashboard that contains navigation controls, an actions toolbar, started tasks listings, activities overviews, and lists. You can manage and start all your work in the List area.
- Search: Take a tour
  The Search page contains search criteria and a panel for viewing search results. You can perform a simple or advanced search of the local system, a local folder, a CD/DVD drive, a DICOM device or an Enterprise search across multiple internal and external systems.
- Text area: Take a tour
  To work in the Text area, from the List area, start any task or open a study.
- Image area: Take a tour
  The Image area displays the study images associated with the current task and combines all image display, manipulation, and enhancement tools for reading.
- Logging in to Enterprise Imaging desktops
  You can log in to and use any Enterprise Imaging desktop if you have a valid username and password, as well as the required permissions, desktop profile, and license.
- Switching to a specific Enterprise Imaging cluster
  If you have multiple Enterprise Imaging clusters that serve as production, test, AUX, or VNA systems, click the tray icon to switch between these clusters.
- Using this Help system
  The Help system includes features that help you search and navigate the content, print topics, and provide feedback on the documentation.
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.
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.
Giving feedback on the documentation
Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback. Your comments will be forwarded to the group responsible for this product’s documentation.
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Text area: Take a tourTopic number: 1425414877757

To work in the Text area, from the List area, start any task or open a study.

Overview

The Text area consists of the following:

Important!

The Text area layout is configurable. Panes might not be in the same location as shown here.

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#	Name	Description
1	Navigation toolbar	Provides navigation to Search, List area, Image area, and Calendar.
2	Task toolbar	Displays a More button menu. Also displays applicable task buttons.
3	List control	Drop-down list and Next/Previous arrows for navigating the selection of tasks or studies.
4	Patient banner	Shows patient name, date of birth, gender, patient ID, and Stat indicator if applicable.
5	Patient information	Shows patient data, such as name, ID, address, patient comments, and current location. Data displayed is configurable.
6	Active studies	Study that you are viewing or study that is linked to a task that you are working on is in bold. Other studies in this pane are linked to the active order.
7	Comparison studies	Other studies for the same patient (relevant priors).
8	Study information tabs	Two or more study-related tabs available for selection, such as Reports, Scanned reports (if available), and procedure name.
9	Study information area	Depending on the tab selected and the data available, shows the report, scanned report, procedure and order details, acquisition details, or other study-related information.

Typical actions

View a patient comment in the Patient information area.
Switch to another tab in the Study information area to view different study-related information. In the procedure name tab you can view study details and add voice clips, hyperlinks, and more.
To pause the current task, click Pause.
To view a relevant prior study, click an item in the comparison studies list.
Complete reporting tasks using your SpeechMike.

Viewing tips

To resize panes, drag the pane dividers to the required size.
To show and hide panes, hover over pane dividers until a white triangle appears, then click it.
Some panes are launched by clicking a link or button, such as task history or text macro. To close these panes, click the X on the tab.
For an alternative layout, select Text area > Switch layout, then select the new layout in the dialog.
To see the name of the current layout, select Text area > Reset current layout Current_layout_name.
To change the displayed fields in a pane, right-click in it and select Customize fields.