Open Studies
Extra patient tabs that sit next to your watched rooms in the sidebar.
Open Studies are extra patient tabs — people you opened from Search or History who are not tied to a watched room. They live in the left sidebar under your rooms.
How they differ from rooms
| Feature | Rooms | Open Studies |
|---|---|---|
| Who appears | Patients assigned to exam rooms you watch | Patients you opened yourself |
| How many | As many rooms as you turned on | Up to four tabs, where Viewer on iPad allows two |
| Closing | You cannot close a room tab | X, or ⌘ W / Ctrl W |
| Include extra records | Yes — matches and Include Patient | One patient per tab |
| Lightbox lock | When the room has a Lightbox | No |
The Open Studies heading appears only while at least one extra tab is open.
Switch between tabs
Click a card to bring that patient forward. Viewer keeps each tab’s images ready in the background, so switching is usually instant.
Close a tab
- Hover a card and click X, or
- With that tab selected, choose Close viewer on the viewer strip, or
- Press ⌘ W / Ctrl W for Close Viewer
⌘ W / Ctrl W never closes a watched room. On Mac, close the window with ⌘ Shift W and quit with ⌘ Q.
If you already have four Open Studies tabs, opening another patient replaces the oldest extra tab. Opening a patient who is already in Open Studies brings that tab forward instead of adding a fifth.
What a card shows
Each card includes the patient name, how many studies are on screen, a calendar mark when a study is from today, and how recently studies were updated.
Sidebar size
- Drag the vertical divider to widen or narrow Rooms and Open Studies.
- Use the sidebar toggle to hide or show the list.
- Collapse on select — on the status bar or under Settings → Rooms — hides the sidebar when you pick a tab that has a patient, the same rule as rooms.
Tips
- Use Open Studies for a walk-up review that should not change who is in an exam room.
- Use Assign to from Search or History when the patient belongs in a room.
- Treat everything on these cards as PHI. Close extra tabs when you finish.