Understanding the Display list columns

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Some sites may elect not to use some of the following columns, and therefore, not all of the following columns may appear in your list. Use the Study tab of the Preferences tool to select the necessary columns for your site.

Column Heading	Description
Patient Name	Displays the patient's name by last, then first name. All the fields including prefix, middle initial, and suffix are separated by commas.
Patient ID	The patient's identification number. In most hospitals, the patient ID is synonymous with the medical record.
Accession number	A unique ID or job number that is generated by the hospital RIS and used for tracking each exam and its corresponding patient name, date, and exam type.
Study Date	Shows the year, month, and day when the patient folder was created at the modality.
Study Time	Shows the hour, minute, and second when the study was created at the modality.
Study Description	Contains the RIS examination code. This code specifies the nature of the examination.
Study Comment	Comments are entered at a diagnostic station and included in the DICOM header information. This is a read-only field in .
Referring Physician	The patient's doctor who sent the patient for a specialist's opinion.
Modality	Displays a two-letter code for the type of imaging modality. For example, Magnetic Resonance is MR.
Image Status	Indicates status information of the study. See Status of Studies for details.
Exam Status	Indicates if the exam is new, scheduled, or reviewed. The information in this field is populated with information that accompanies the study images and can be updated if HIS verification is turned on.
Patient Location	Indicates the last known location of the patient.
Department	The name of the department in the institution where the exam was performed.
Images	The number of images in the study.
Reason for Study	The patient's symptoms and/or the patient's condition as a reason for the study.
Specialty	The body part that has been mapped to the RIS examination code.
Gender Attribute	Indicates the gender of the patient.
Body Part	The part of the body where the study was taken.