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Field Parameters
Patient Name* Up to 64 characters
Sex Male, Female or Other
Birthdate
Month/Day/Year (MM/DD/YYYY)
Day/Month/Year (DD/MM/YYYY)
Year/Month/Day (YYYY/MM/DD)
Age
Years, Months, Weeks, Days
Weight Kilograms or Pounds
Height Feet and Inches or Centimeters
Referring Physician* Up to 64 characters
Radiologist Up to 64 characters
Operator Up to 64 characters
History Up to 60 characters
Exam Description Up to 64 characters
Protocol Number Up to 5 characters
Req. Proc. ID Up to 64 characters
Date Exam Date Month, Day, Year
Time Exam Time Hour, Minute
2. From the Patient Information window, enter data into the appropriate fields.
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Press [Tab] to advance to the next text field, or use the mouse to navigate to each field.
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The cursor must be within the
Patient Information window for the input to be accepted.
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Patient ID
is a required field. If the patient does not have an identification number,
enter ? or the word trauma.
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Once an identification number has been assigned, you can edit exam information using
Edit Patient after [Close Exam].
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Select Delete All Completed exams when patient information is updated from the HIS/
RIS. This ensures that completed accession numbers are not inadvertently selected for
a second scanning. This could cause patient reconciliation issues on the Picture
Archiving Communications System (PACS).
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Birth dates can only be entered for the past 115 years. The format for date entry
depends on your system settings: MM/DD/YYYY, YYYY/MM/DD, DD/MM/YYYY.
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Patients in Japan may know their birth date only by emperor reign year. Configure the
birth date fields to YYYY/MM/DD date format and enter the reign year in the year field.
For example, enter S26, if your patient was born in the 26th year of Showa's reign,
which corresponds to 1951. The Era codes are Heisel (H), Showa (S), Taisho (T), Meiji
(M). The system stores the converted birth year in the birth date field on the
New Patient
and Patient Schedule windows and in the image header.
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If needed, select items from any of the stored Preset Selection values: Referring
Physician, Radiologist, Operator, Exam Description . The selections are displayed as you
type a character and the list is filtered.
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