Sorting the Worklist

Once you have filtered the worklist, you can further organize the information to easily find the exams you require. For example, you can sort orders by their descriptions to view similar areas together, or by priority to view all urgent cases at the top of the list. Your sorting criteria are saved automatically when you exit.

You can sort the worklist data by primary, secondary, and tertiary criteria and your sort order is saved when you restart the application. An arrow appears in the column heading to indicate the primary column and whether it is in ascending or descending order (secondary and tertiary sorting is applied, but no icon appears).

Each time you click a column it moves to the first place in the sort order, and any previously-clicked columns move down one level. Clicking the same column more than once switches between ascending and descending order.

For example, to sort columns primarily by assigned radiologist and secondarily by the organization, first click the Organization column and then click the Assigned To column.

Once you click another column to set its priority, you can no longer go back and change previous columns to ascending or descending order without affecting the priority.

To sort columns:

  1. View the worklist, if you are not already.

    In this example, we will sort orders in the worklist by the following criteria:

    • Primary: Priority (in descending order)
    • Secondary: Study Date (in ascending order)
    • Tertiary: Patient Name (in ascending order)

  2. Click the column that you want to assign tertiary priority. If necessary, click the column heading again to sort the information in descending order.

    The information is sorted in ascending order and an arrow appears in the selected column heading to indicate the sort order.

  3. Click the column that you want to assign secondary priority. If necessary, click the column heading again to sort the information in descending order.

    Notice that the column you selected in step 2 is changed to secondary priority.

  4. Click the column that you want to assign first priority. If necessary, click the column heading again to sort the information in descending order.

    This column becomes the first priority. Notice that the column selected in step 3 is sorted as second priority, and the column selected in step 2 is sorted as third priority.