Imaging

What it does

Imaging is the platform's radiology information system (RIS). It records what can be requested, what was requested, and what was reported. It is not a PACS: it never stores the images themselves, only the metadata and links to wherever the images are held.

The first screen is the procedure catalog — the list of orderable imaging procedures. Everything downstream depends on it: an order names a procedure, a worklist entry carries its modality, and a national extract reports its code.

Where to find it

• Imaging → Procedure catalog — /imaging/catalog

You need the view imaging catalog permission to see it, and the manage imaging catalog permission to change anything.

Common tasks

Add a procedure

1. Open Imaging → Procedure catalog and choose Add procedure.
2. Give it a name a clinician would recognise, e.g. CT abdomen with contrast.
3. Choose the modality and the code system. Both are picked from lists, never typed — see below if the one you need is missing.
4. Enter the procedure code in the system you chose, e.g. LOINC 36643-5.
5. Optionally add the body site, laterality, whether contrast is required and which agent, preparation instructions, typical room time and a reference dose. Body site, laterality and contrast agent are searched from the concept dictionary — type "chest" rather than a number.
6. Choose Available to: every facility in your organisation, or this facility only.
7. Add procedure.

Register a modality or a code system

If the modality your department acquires on — or the coding scheme your country publishes — is not in the list, register it from the Reference lists section, or from the Register… button beside the picker while adding a procedure.

These are managed records rather than free text on purpose: if one person typed CT and another Ct, they would become two different modalities and a worklist filter would quietly miss half the work.

Retire a procedure

Use Retire procedure on the row and give a reason. You can only retire entries your own facility or organisation published. Procedures published by a national body are visible to you and can be ordered against, but only their publisher may retire them.

What you are looking at

The catalog you see is three lists merged:

• procedures your facility published,
• procedures your organisation published,
• procedures published by national health bodies in your country.

A country often has more than one national body, so two entries with the same name are normal. The Published by column is how you tell them apart, and it also states whether an entry is tenant-wide or local to one facility.

Troubleshooting

What you see	What it means
"No modality is registered in this scope yet"	Nothing has been registered for your facility, organisation or country. Register the equipment you actually have.
"This procedure is published by another owner and cannot be retired here"	The entry belongs to another organisation. Ask them, or publish your own version.
"A live procedure with code … already exists for this owner"	The same code is already in your catalog. Search for it rather than creating a duplicate.
The Imaging section is missing from the sidebar	You do not hold the imaging catalog permission, or the imaging module is not activated for your facility.