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# Radiology list

> Track every imaging request in your hospital, move a study through scheduling and performance, and write the findings and impression.

export const AuditNote = ({action = 'This action'}) => <div className="ck-callout ck-callout--info" role="note">
    <p className="ck-callout__body">
      {action} is written to your workspace's audit log with your name, the
      record touched and the time — a HIPAA requirement, and one you can review
      yourself under <strong>Audit Log</strong>. See{' '}
      <a href="/platform/security/audit-log">Audit log</a>.
    </p>
  </div>;

export const StillStuck = ({topic}) => <div className="ck-callout ck-callout--note" role="note">
    <p className="ck-callout__body">
      <strong>Still stuck{topic ? ` with ${topic}` : ''}?</strong>{' '}
      Check <a href="/platform/help/troubleshooting">Troubleshooting</a> first —
      it covers the failures we see most often. If that does not resolve it,{' '}
      <a href="/platform/help/contact-support">contact support</a> and include
      your workspace name and the time the problem happened, so we can find the
      matching entry in your audit log.
    </p>
  </div>;

export const TaskHeader = ({before, time, after}) => <div className="ck-task">
    {before ? <div className="ck-task__cell">
        <div className="ck-task__title">Before you start</div>
        <p className="ck-task__body">{before}</p>
      </div> : null}

    {time ? <div className="ck-task__cell">
        <div className="ck-task__title">Takes about</div>
        <p className="ck-task__body">{time}</p>
      </div> : null}

    {after ? <div className="ck-task__cell">
        <div className="ck-task__title">When you're done</div>
        <p className="ck-task__body">{after}</p>
      </div> : null}
  </div>;

export const Path = ({steps = []}) => <span className="ck-path">
    {steps.map((s, i) => <span key={i} className="ck-path__step">
        {i > 0 ? <span className="ck-path__sep" aria-hidden="true">
            ›
          </span> : null}
        {s}
      </span>)}
  </span>;

export const Availability = ({editions = ['all'], plans, roles, note}) => {
  const list = editions.includes('all') ? ['clinic', 'pharmacy', 'lims'] : editions;
  return <div className="ck-avail" role="note" aria-label="Feature availability">
      <span className="ck-avail__label">Available in</span>

      {list.map(e => <span key={e} className={`ck-pill ck-pill--${e}`}>
          {EDITION_LABELS[e] || e}
        </span>)}

      {plans ? <span className="ck-avail__label">Plan</span> : null}
      {plans ? <span className="ck-pill ck-pill--plan">{plans}</span> : null}

      {roles ? <span className="ck-avail__label">Who</span> : null}
      {roles ? <span className="ck-pill ck-pill--role">{roles}</span> : null}

      {note ? <span className="ck-avail__note">{note}</span> : null}
    </div>;
};

<Availability editions={['clinic']} plans="Enterprise" roles="Radiologists, radiology technicians, doctors and managers" note="Needs the Diagnostics care area" />

The **Radiology List** is every imaging request your hospital has raised: **Manage radiology studies and reports for your clinic.** It is where a study is scheduled, performed, and finally reported.

<Path steps={['Sidebar', 'Radiology', 'Radiology List']} />

<TaskHeader before="The Diagnostics care area switched on, and a patient with an imaging request" time="Minutes to move a study on; reporting takes as long as it takes" after="A study marked completed with findings and an impression on the record" />

## Before you start

**Radiology** and **Laboratory** come from one switch — the **Diagnostics** care area in **Settings → Facility**. If the group is missing from your sidebar, that is why; see [Care areas](/hospital/get-started/care-areas).

Requests normally arrive from a [consultation](/hospital/outpatient/consultation) or a ward chart. **Create Report** raises one here, for walk-in and referred work that never had a consultation in your system.

## What you're looking at

Seven tiles run across the top: **Total Studies**, **Pending**, **In Progress**, **Completed**, **Urgent**, **Critical** and **Reports Due**.

Under them, three priority buttons appear **only when they have something to show** — **Critical Findings**, **Pending Reports** and **Urgent Studies**, each with a count. A button that is not on screen means that count is zero, which is the answer you wanted.

| Control                                      | What it does                                                                                                                      |
| -------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Search studies, patients, or findings...** | Searches all three                                                                                                                |
| **Create Report**                            | Raises a new imaging request                                                                                                      |
| **Refresh** · **Export**                     | Re-read the list; take a copy                                                                                                     |
| **Columns** → **Toggle columns**             | Shows the optional columns                                                                                                        |
| **All statuses**                             | **Pending**, **Scheduled**, **In Progress**, **Completed**, **Reported**                                                          |
| **All urgencies**                            | **Routine**, **Urgent**, **STAT**                                                                                                 |
| **All modalities**                           | **X-Ray**, **CT Scan**, **MRI**, **Ultrasound**, **Mammography**, **Fluoroscopy**, **PET Scan**, **DEXA Scan**, **ECG**, **Echo** |
| **All categories** · **Pick a date range**   | Diagnostic, screening, interventional or therapeutic; and the period                                                              |

The table shows **Patient ID**, **Patient Name**, **Study Type**, **Status**, **Ordered** and **Ordered By** by default. **Accession**, **Scheduled**, **Performed**, **Reported**, **Technician**, **Radiologist**, **Findings**, **Impression** and **Payment** are available under **Toggle columns**.

Badges follow a strict order of importance: **Critical** outranks **STAT**, which outranks **Urgent**, which outranks the plain status. An empty hospital reads **No radiology studies found for this clinic.**

## Move a study through the list

Each row's menu offers **View Study**, then the one status action that applies:

<Steps>
  <Step title="Schedule Study">
    Books the study in. The row moves from **Pending** to **Scheduled**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Conduct Study">
    Marks it as being performed. The row shows **In progress**, which is what tells the requesting ward the patient is at the machine.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Complete Study">
    Marks the acquisition finished. Only now is the study ready to report.
  </Step>
</Steps>

A role without the rights to move a study sees a single disabled item reading **Status: \{Status}** instead — the state is still visible, the action is not.

## Report the study

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open the report">
    **Create Report** on a completed study, or **Update Report** / **Revise Report** on one already written. The heading reads **Create Study Report**, **Edit Study Report** or **View Study Report**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Write the findings">
    **Findings** is required — "Detailed description of what is observed in the study". Describe what is there, not what it means.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Write the impression">
    **Impression** is also required — "Clinical interpretation and diagnostic conclusion". Referring clinicians read the impression first and often only that, so put the answer here rather than leaving it implied by the findings. **Recommendations** carries any follow-up.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Record the technique">
    Under **Technical Details**: **Technique Used**, **Image Quality**, whether a **Contrast agent used**, and the **Radiation Dose**. Dose belongs on the record every time — it is cumulative for the patient across their life.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Flag anything critical">
    Tick **This study contains critical findings** where they exist. ClinikEHR then reminds you: critical findings "require immediate communication to the ordering physician" — the tick records it, it does not deliver it. Pick up the phone.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Save">
    **Save Draft** keeps it editable. **Complete Report** (or **Update Report**) releases it, confirmed with **Report saved successfully**.
  </Step>
</Steps>

<Warning>
  An unreleased report is preliminary and must never leave the building looking final. If a ward needs an urgent read before you can complete it, speak to them directly — do not print or send the draft.
</Warning>

<AuditNote action="Opening a study and its report" />

## Who can do this

**Role** decides whether the module opens at all — anyone else is told **You don't have permission to access the radiology module. Please contact your clinic administrator.** An owner can also hide **Radiology** from a role under [Role navigation](/hospital/settings/role-navigation).

| Action                                | Who by default                         | How it is governed                                                                                                           |
| ------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Open the list and view a study        | Clinical and imaging staff             | Role                                                                                                                         |
| Schedule, conduct or complete a study | Radiology technicians and radiologists | Role — others see a disabled **Status: \{Status}** item                                                                      |
| Write or edit a report                | Radiologists and doctors               | Role — others get **You don't have permission to edit reports. Only radiologists and doctors can create or modify reports.** |
| Edit **Technical Details**            | Technicians and radiologists           | Role — read-only for everyone else                                                                                           |
| See payment on a study                | Staff with billing visibility          | Permission — a figure you may not see renders as a dash, never a zero                                                        |

Per-person enforcement is **opt-in**: someone never saved in the permissions sheet is unrestricted, and the sheet warns **"Saving starts enforcing"**. A **denied action is recorded** in the audit log; an allowed one is not. See [Staff permissions](/platform/team/permissions).

## Check it worked

* The row shows **Reported**, and the **Reports Due** tile drops by one.
* Switching on the **Findings** and **Impression** columns shows your text.
* The **Radiologist** column names you.
* The requesting clinician sees the report on the [patient's record](/hospital/front-desk/patients).

## Common issues

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="You have read-only access to this report">
    You can open the study but not write it. Reporting is limited to radiologists and doctors; ask an owner to correct your role under [Staff](/hospital/settings/staff).
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Create Report is not offered on a row">
    The study is not completed yet. Work it through **Schedule Study** → **Conduct Study** → **Complete Study** first; a report on an unperformed study would have nothing behind it.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Please select a radiology order first.">
    You reached the report form without a study attached, usually from a stale link. Go back to the list and open the row from its action menu.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="The priority buttons have disappeared">
    They only render when their count is above zero. No **Critical Findings** button means there are none — which is the good outcome, not a fault.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Failed to mark study completed">
    The status move did not save. Select **Refresh** and check the current status before trying again — someone else may have moved it.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="There is no Radiology group in my sidebar">
    Either the **Diagnostics** [care area](/hospital/get-started/care-areas) is off, or your hospital is not on the Enterprise plan. See [Change your plan](/platform/plans/change-plan).
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

## FAQ

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="Where do the images themselves live?">
    On your own imaging archive. ClinikEHR stores the addresses, and the viewer reads from your equipment — see [Modalities](/hospital/diagnostics/modalities). Without the imaging bridge, images are attached by hand.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Can I revise a report after releasing it?">
    Yes — **Revise Report** on the row. The revision is recorded, because the first version has already been read and acted on.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="What is the difference between this and Radiology Reports?">
    This list is the request queue with its filters and status actions. [Radiology reports](/hospital/diagnostics/radiology-reports) is the reporting surface, with the study's images, prior comparisons and the download.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Does ticking Critical Findings notify anyone?">
    No. It marks the record and reminds you to communicate them. Telling the ordering physician is still a phone call.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Is there deeper documentation on imaging requests?">
    Yes — the Diagnostics edition runs the same screens. See [Imaging requests](/lims/imaging/requests).
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

<StillStuck topic="an imaging request" />