Chapter 6 - About the Patient History view
How to browse all the images from thumbnails
You can open any image files on your network without selecting the images from a particular patient
record.
1. Select File menu > Browse Images to display the Browse Images dialog box.
2. Select the appropriate file type from the File Types drop-down menu.
3. Select the directory containing the images you want to open.
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Click Pause Loading at any time to temporarily stop images loading in the browser window. You can
restart loading images by clicking Restart Loading.
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If necessary, use the scroll bars to scroll up and down to view images in the Browsing dialog box.
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The Browsing dialog box remains open under the image window. You can use it to select more
images.
How to search images by criteria
You can search all the saved images by setting the search criteria. You can search by date, image status,
whether the image has had any review notes attached or for pathology or diagnostic codes.
1. Select Review menu > Image Set to display the Select Images dialog box.
2. Complete the Select by Date, Select by Status and Search Image Notes criteria. Click OK. The images that meet
the specified criteria are displayed in the View Image Set window.
3. Select the image(s) you want to open. If you select one image the Open in Image Stack Window is enabled.
If you select more than one image all window buttons are enabled.
4. Click the appropriate button to open the image(s).
How to open images from the hard disk
You can select images from the hard disk.
1. Select File menu > Open to display the Select Image(s) to View dialog box.
2. Select the file(s) you want to open. Click OK.
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You can select multiple files by holding [Ctrl] while clicking eachfile you want to open. You can
select a range of adjacent files by holding [Shift] while selecting the first and last file in the range.
The selected files are highlighted.
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You can also drag and drop files directly from the file browser (also know as My Computer or
Windows® Explorer).
Discarding unwanted images
You can discard unwanted images.
How to discard an image from the Patient History view
1. Click the image thumbnail, and drag and drop on to the wastebasket icon, see Review application
user reference on page 81.
2. Click Yes to confirm or No to cancel the operation. Close and reopen the Patient History view to refresh
the view.
How to discard an open image
Select Image menu > Delete Image.
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