Primary and secondary roles: Workflow applications

Defining primary roles

Every user has a primary role—the role the user was first created in—which holds the definition for all of the user's preferences, such as toolbar settings, dictation options, modality preferences, displayed worklists, and so on.

Creating cross-functional teams with secondary roles

You can, however, add a user to secondary roles. The permissions and licensing from this secondary role are also inherited by the user. This gives the user access to the study data available from that secondary role. Preferences, however, are not inherited from a secondary role. A user has only one set of preferences, from the user's primary role.

Secondary roles make it possible to create a role for a cross-functional team, such as an ICU Team, which might include users who are nurses, internal medicine clinicians, and radiologists. You can add users to ICU Team as a secondary role. Then those users gain access to the studies available to the ICU Team while still retaining the preferences required by their primary job function, such as radiology.

Differentiating secondary roles

In the Configure area - Users and Roles section, in the navigation pane, any users that are in a secondary role are in italics.

To see a user's primary and secondary roles, select a user in the navigation pane. In the Details pane, under the User bar, switch to the Information tab. The user's primary role and any secondary roles are listed.