Use your own name, not the department's. Every report carries the name of whoever signed it.
The radiographer picks the patient off the machine instead of typing the name. Type it once, here, with the card in front of you.
Day, month, year. It is also the password on any report emailed to this patient.
Measurements drawn here are not saved. Anything that belongs in the report has to be typed into it.
Signing is final. A correction afterwards is an addendum, because the patient may already be holding a printout.
Normally the X-ray machine sends studies here by itself and nobody touches a file. Use this when it cannot, or for an older study.
Choose every image in the study together. They usually end in .dcm. A photograph of a film is not a DICOM file and will be refused.
Do this once after somebody has reset it for you, so the password nobody else knows is the one you use.
At least 10 characters. It is typed once and kept, and this login is reachable from the internet.