Worklist
How to find studies, read their status, open the viewer, and understand what each status means.
The worklist is the main screen you'll use every day. It shows a live table of imaging studies—one row per study—and lets you filter, search, and act on them.
Finding a study
Use the filters at the top of the worklist to narrow down the list:
- Text search — patient name, study description, or other indexed fields in your deployment.
- Status —
New,Ready,Reporting, orFinalized(see below). - Site — if you have access to more than one site.
- Date range — based on study or acquisition date.
- Modality — CT, MR, and so on.
If you can't find a study, try clearing all filters and widening the date range first. Studies don't disappear—they're probably hidden by an active filter.
Reading a row
Each row in the worklist shows:
- Patient — name and identifiers as configured for your site.
- Study — description, modality, and date.
- Status — a clear label (and often a color or chip) so you can see at a glance where the study is.
- Actions — what you can do depends on the study's current status and your permissions.
Status at a glance
| Status | What it means |
|---|---|
| New | The study arrived and is waiting to be triaged. Demographics and routing often need to be confirmed. |
| Ready | Someone verified the study and it's cleared for reporting. The radiologist can now open and read it. |
| Reporting | A report is in progress—a draft exists and someone is actively working on it. |
| Finalized | The report is complete. The study is closed from a reporting perspective, though you can usually still open it for review. |
→ Study lifecycle has the full explanation of how studies move between these states.
Opening a study
Click a row to go to the study detail view. From there you can:
- Review and edit patient demographics (if you have permission and the patient isn't locked).
- Mark ready — moves the study from New to Ready, signaling it's cleared for reporting.
- Open in Prism — launches the diagnostic viewer with this study preloaded.
Opening Prism
Use the Open in Prism (or Viewer) action on the study detail page. Prism opens with your current session—no separate login needed. If you don't have permission to view images, the button will be disabled.
Shared studies
If your site uses sharing, a study may be visible to you even when it's outside your normal filters—because a colleague explicitly shared it with you. Shared studies usually have a visual indicator in the row.
Related
- Study lifecycle — the full state machine, from arrival to finalized.
- Patients and editing — what the patient edit lock means and when it applies.
- Reporting — from a study in Reporting status to a completed, finalized report.