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Imaging works like the lab: a clinician requests the study, the modality performs it, a radiologist reports it, and the signed report goes back to the requester. This page walks that loop inside a hospital workspace. Radiology and Laboratory both come from one switch — the Diagnostics care area in Settings → Facility. See Care areas.

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Where everything lives

Modalities appears only when the imaging bridge is switched on for your workspace. Without it the other four screens still work — you simply attach images by hand rather than receiving them from the equipment.

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Request a study

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Order from the consultation

Open the consultation, go to the Orders tab and select the Imaging sub-tab. Ordering here keeps the request tied to the encounter and the clinical question behind it.
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Or order from the station

Open Radiology Station and raise the request there. Use this for walk-in and referred work that never had a consultation in your system.
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Say why

Write the clinical indication into the request. The radiologist reads that before they read the images, and a request with no question attached comes back as a description rather than an answer.

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Report the study

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Open the study

From the imaging list, select Create Report on the row. If images are attached the report screen says ” images attached” and offers Open full viewer, Download study and Archive to cloud.
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Read the images

Open full viewer launches the full diagnostic viewer in a new tab. Download study takes a copy for offline reading. Archive to cloud moves the study into long-term storage — do that once reporting is finished, not before.
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Write findings and impression

Enter the Findings — what you can see — and then the Impression, which is the answer to the clinical question. Referring clinicians read the impression first and often only that, so put the conclusion there rather than leaving it implied by the findings.
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Sign the report

Sign it. Signing is what makes the report a clinical document rather than a working draft, and it is what releases the report to the requester.
An unsigned report is stamped as preliminary and must never leave the building looking final. If a ward needs an urgent read before you can sign, speak to them — do not print the draft.

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Check it worked

  • The study shows as reported in Radiology History, with your name on it.
  • The report appears under Radiology Reports and prints without a preliminary stamp.
  • The requesting clinician sees the report on the patient’s record.

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If something goes wrong

Either the Diagnostics care area is off, or your workspace is not on the Enterprise plan. See Change your plan.
Modalities only appears when the imaging bridge is enabled for your workspace. Everything else on this page works without it — you attach and read images manually instead.
The equipment has not delivered them yet, or the study was performed on a modality that is not connected. Check the study on the equipment before you report from memory, and ask the radiographer to re-send it.
The viewer opens in a new tab. If nothing appears, your browser blocked the pop-up — allow pop-ups for ClinikEHR and select it again.
Speak to an owner or manager. Correcting a signed report is a deliberate, recorded act rather than a quiet edit, because the first version has already been read and acted on.

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Going deeper

The imaging workflow is documented in full in the Diagnostics edition pages — the same screens your hospital’s imaging unit uses.

Imaging requests

How a request reaches the modality.

Imaging station

Reading, reporting and turnaround.

Modalities

Connecting equipment and archiving studies.

Order and report lab tests

The laboratory equivalent of this page.