Facility Management

In OnePacs, a facility is a logical grouping of related imaging centers or hospitals.  Typically, it is a single imaging facility or hospital.   A facility allows configuration of many workflow related settings such as report templates, report distribution, and study retention. A facility also may restrict user access to studies.


Administrators of the OnePacs system have the ability to configure facilities within the system. The Gateway AE Title that is defined when creating the facility is the AE title that is used when the Gateway is installed on the local network of the facility.   A facility configuration allows an administrator to configure workflow and default settings for studies that are sent in for a facility. Study access, confirmation settings, reporting requirements such as turn around time, directory information, reporting templates, security policies, report distributions, etc are usually related to or configured at the facility level.

To see a list of facilities. Click the Admin → Facilities menu option. A grid will show with the facilities that you have configured. You may filter this list by facility description, member of a facility group, or the facility state.  Check the Show inactive/disabled checkbox to show facilities that are no longer active. 

Use the add button to add a new facility.

Select a facility and click the edit button to edit an existing facilities settings.

Use the sample cases toolbar button  to quickly store some sample cases to the facility for testing or demonstration purposes.

You can create a facility that is similar to an existing facility by selecting the existing facility on the facility list and then selecting the down arrow on the add button and then selecting the “create facility from prototype” option. This will fill the facility form with the options from the existing facility.

Use the Add -> Defaults button to configure the defaults for new facilities. When the add button is selected to create a new facility, the default options will be populated.

Highlighted fields

Description:   The text that may show on the worklist identifying where the study originated.

AE Title:  The facility defined AE Title.  This is used during the gateway installation.

Time Zone:   Identifies the timezone of the facility.  Important so that the study date and time are correctly identified inside of a timezone.

Retention Time (days):   How long the studies from this facility will remain on OnePacs.  After this time period the studies may be eligible to be cleared from the system leaving only the report and the key images.

Confirmation  (Workflow):    Depending on use, this may add a workflow whereas the technologist must confirm the use of a study.   Technologists may add patient history and state if a diagnostic report is necessary or if this study is for comparison.

Hover over a field for help on a setting. Adjust the confirmation and reporting sections as necessary for the facility.

Other Highlights



Click save to save the facility settings.