You can initiate a collaboration session so your viewer appears on the workstation of invited participants. Also, actions by another user can be applied to your workstation. Each user can see what the other is doing, and what is being added to the study. Users can communicate by telephone and review the same study as if they were observing the same workstation.
To establish a collaboration session, click Collaboration/Connect. The other participant must be logged into eRAD PACS under their account and the viewer must be running in standby mode. A window appears with a list of connected users.
If all desired participants are on the same LAN, the host can invite other users to join. Select the user to add to the collaboration session and click on invite user from list. The other user receives a prompt stating you wish to establish a collaboration session. If they accept the session, the viewer launches on their workstation and displays what is on the host workstation.
If the server is not available to one or more participants, the host must create a collaboration session for the participants to individually join. Create a session name and click on create new session. Then, inform each participant to enter the same session name and click on join existing session. All joined users will view the same information displayed on the host screen.
After connecting, a second cursor appears on the host workstation. The white cursor belongs to the host, and a red cursor belongs to any other user. As each user moves their cursor, other users can see it move also. Change made to the image display including window/level settings, scrolling, series selection, zooming, annotations, etc., will appear on the other workstation.
The host is always the master controller of the session. For security reasons, no other user can obtain control of the session without permission from the host.
To request control, the other user clicks their mouse on the workstation. A notice appears on the host workstation indicating the other user has requested control of the session. The host can choose to release or deny control to the other user. The host requests control back using the same technique.
When the session is over, either user can request to terminate the session by clicking Collaboration/Disconnect (or the host can close the viewer). Users then resort back to the studies they had prior to the session.