User Accounts

The User Accounts page allows administrators to add, edit and remove user accounts, assign group affiliations, specify user rights, review user profile information, and find out when a user last accessed the system, and from where. To display the Users list, select Admin/User Accounts from the menu.

Note: Before creating user accounts, user groups must be defined.

See: User Groups

Below is an example of the user page with icons to the left that perform various functions:

- Lock user account status and control
- Copy user (Copy)
- Edit user information (Editing User Information)
- Delete user (Deleting a User)
- User log-in information (green when user is active)

The group of icons on the right allows for adding new users ,editing the layout of the worklist, export the worklist, and sorting of the worklist:

- Sort user name in ascending order
- Edit layout
- exports user accounts list to a .csv file
- Add user
- Search for a user

Adding a New User

Use the User Accounts page to add a new user account to eRAD PACS. The eRAD PACS license defines the maximum number of supported user accounts. Before creating user accounts, define your user groups. User groups consist of default settings, such as privileges, worklists, filters, and viewer profiles. Assigning a user account to a group is required.

To add a new user select the Add User icon.

Copying Viewer Settings When Creating a New Account

There are two methods to create a new user account and import all viewer settings from an existing account.

Use the Copy profile from section.

Click on the Add User button
Click to expand Viewer profile settings
Type to search for user you wish to copy in Copy profile from box
The existing account information initializes the fields on the page
Edit values as needed
Click the Save

Copy

Use the Copy button

The administrator is able to create a new user and copy settings from a selected user. When the copy user icon is selected next to a user name, the new user will have the same settings as the selected user (highlighted below).

An administrator can create a new user in the text field (highlighted below) who will have the same copied settings.

Below are all of the settings that can be copied. Select the expand icon to reveal all settings. Select the collapse icon to close all settings.

The list of icons in the bottom right hand corner perform various functions:

- (Expand all) Expands all settings
- (Save and add user) Saves current new user name and creates a copy for a new user to be created
- (Cancel) Cancels all actions
- (Save) Saves all actions

Deleting a User

To delete a user:

Select the Delete icon next to the user name
Select the Delete icon again to confirm before countdown expires

Editing User Information

When the edit icon is selected, a person with administrative rights designated by their facility can modify or delete user information.

Basic Information

In this section, the administrator can change personal information such as e-mail, phone numbers, as well as what group the user may be in (physician, technologist, etc.).

Rights

In this section, a user is allowed rights such as administrative rights, editing reports, scheduling as well as Plugin rights.

Basic Rights	Description
Accounting	Access to the account summary information
Admin	Administrative rights. Admin permissions override other permission settings with the following exceptions: Scan, Scheduling, Dump
Allow multiple sessions	Allow concurrent active login sessions
Allow outside scope searches	User can search for studies outside of applied restriction
Archive	Access to the archived data, including third-party archives
Break Locks	User is permitted to break locks held by other users
CD Importing	Import studies from CD/DVD using Media Import feature
CTRM	Create and monitor CTRM messages. Available if CTRM license is installed.
Copy	Create a copy of a study in a folder
Correction	Manipulate the correction queue
Create View	Save a worklist view (filter)
Delete	Purge studies from the server
Display Logs	Display the system logs (see Warning below)
Dump	Dump DICOM data
Edit Advanced Settings	User is permitted to edit the viewer’s Advanced settings
Edit Memory Settings	User is permitted to edit the viewer's memory settings
Edit Overlay Fields	User is permitted to edit the viewer's overlay field configuration
Edit Prefetch Settings	User is permitted to edit the viewer’s prefetch settings. This does not affect the user’s ability to define or edit the prefetch worklist filter.
Edit report	Edit the report text or upload post-processed images. See the table below for dependent permissions
Edit study	Edit study information, merge, split, and uploading post-processed images from the eRAD PACS viewer
Forward/Export	Send a set of images to a configured destination
Open	Open the eRAD PACS viewer and view images stored on the server. See the table below for dependent permissions
Restricted Query	The ability to perform queries that exceed the maximum query time
Scan/Upload	Scan documents into PACS and/or Scheduler
Scheduling	Access the Scheduler pages. Available when eRAD Scheduler is licensed. See the table below for dependent permissions
Set Status	Set study status. Implicitly assigned to users with Report or Transcribe permissions
Worklist Configuration	Modify the worklist table settings (edit layout, row color, text color, reorder columns, conditional formatting, etc)

	Warning
	User accounts with the user right Display Logs enabled grants the user access to all patient and study log data, which might contain PHI. This applied to all users including those user accounts with worklist restrictions.

Edit Report permissions are required before the following can be assigned:

Permission	Code	Description
Approve	R	Approve a report
Dictate	J	Create a dictated report
Note	K	Enter or edit a note

Open permissions are required before the following can be assigned:

Permission	Code	Description
DICOM Printing	P	Print film using DICOM print from the viewer

Plugin Rights	Description
3D Volume Rendering
AVI Player
Dragon Naturally Speaking
Image Fusion
Image Stitching Tool
Initiate Radar Conversation
Mammography Module
Mask Subtraction
Multi-planar reconstruction

Password Settings

See: Change Password

Preferences

See: Preferences Page

Viewer Profile Settings

Forward Targets

In this section, administrators can pick and choose which device list of target devices available on the forward setup page, forward action setup page and the copy

action page per-user. Options include all devices, device accessible to the user’s primary group, devices in a defined category, and the list of individual devices plus DICOM media, folders.