Nopali Help Nopali HelpYou can enter and manage patient media data (like image, PDF and other files) with Nopali. In addition, image files can be used to create page layouts suitable for printing.
Press the Patient Media item in the toolbar to see this view:
The Patient Media view contains a grouping sidebar to the left, a canvas and some buttons:
The central canvas is used to show a series of thumbnails representing the files saved to a patient chart. You can reorder the thumbnails by dragging them across the canvas. An action button can be found near the lower right corner.
On the lower edge of the window, there is a slider that can be used to change the size of the thumbnails:
Any files can be imported into a patient chart, including images and Microsoft Word documents. There are essentally 4 ways to import files into a patient chart:
Note that the PDF Service will only appear if the Nopali application is running.
You can export files from the media browser using one of two methods:
You can also export all of the media files from all of the patients using the Nopali Administrator. Details can be found here.
File deletion can only be done by users with 'superuser' or 'file deletion' privileges (see Nopali Administrator for more details here). To delete a file, just select it in the browser and press the 'delete' button on your keyboard.
You can move or copy files to a different patient chart by selecting thumbnails in the canvas and pressing on the appropriate menu item found under the 'Media' menu at the top of the screen. A similar menu item is found in the action button on the lower right corner of the window.
Another way to copy files into a different chart is to drag file thumbnails to the 'Copy To Patient Media' item in the Grouping sidebar.
You can view the actual file rather than the thumbnail by double-clicking on the thumbnail. Nopali will attempt to load the file in an appropriate window.
You can change the name and date of a file by right-clicking on a thumbnail. A context-window will appear that will allow you to modify these parameters.
You can also assign a date to a group of files by using the 'Change Display Date of Selected Files...' menu item found in the action button at the lower right corner of the window.
Files with changed display dates are indicated by the 'handwriting' symbol next to the date in the thumbnail. You can revert this by using the 'Revert Selected File Display Dates to Original Version' menu item in the action button. File names cannot be reverted.
Image files can have transformations applied to them such as rotation and cropping. When you double-click on an image file, an image editor window will appear:
The image editing controls are on the lower left margin of the window, including a slider to quickly rotate the image along cardinal points:
To save your edits or revert back to the original file, use the menu items found in the action button on the lower right side of the window:
You can also perform a 'group rotation' of a selection of image files by using the 'Rotate Selected Images' menu item found in the action button in the main window.
Edited files will have a 'pencil' symbol next to their file name in the thumbnail. Images can be reverted back to their unedited versions by using the 'Revert Selected Images to Original Version' menu item in the action button.
There are two image layout options in Nopali. Although the end result is similar, one layout uses static image boxes, while the other uses animation. Try each of them to see which one you are most comfortable with. You can select the layout views using the control at the bottom of the main window:
Pressing the central icon will give you the static layout view (the right-most icon will give you the animated layout view).
In the static layout view, you can drag images from the browser on the left side into predefined cells in the layout.
The number of cells can be midified by using the stepper underneath the layout page. Other options are available in the action button:
The animated layout interface is similar to the static view, except that there are no predefined cells to drag to. Instead, just drag as many images as you would like to the layout page. The view will take care of creating the appropriate number of cells:
In either case, once a layout is created, it can be printed by pressing the printer icon near the lower right corner of the main window.
The left sidebar allows you to group media files. The buttons at the top of the sidebar will sort the media files into date and file type classes:
Below this are the user-defined groups. You can create groupings that are available to each patient ('System' Groupings) or those that are only available to a specific patient chart ('Local' Groupings). Most of the time you will create 'System' groupings to avoid having to recreate the same grouping in each chart. Groupings such as 'Faxes', 'Labs Work', 'Preop Pictures' can be created, as needed. Media files can be included in multiple groupings.
To create a grouping, select either the 'System' header or the 'Local' header and press the '+' button near the bottom of the sidebar. You can edit the grouping name by double-clicking on the new grouping. To delete a grouping, select it and press the '-' button at the bottom of the sidebar. Deleting a grouping will NOT delete the associated media files.
You add media files to a grouping by dragging thumbnails into it from the canvas. You can also drag files from the Finder directly into a grouping.
To view the contents of a grouping, simply select it. The canvas will show the contents of the selected grouping.
Smart Searches can be performed by selecting the desired item in the sidebar, such as 'Image Files' or 'Document Files'. You can also find files that were recently added to the database by using the appropriate smart search.
There are also special case headers, such as 'Copy To Paper Chart' and 'Copy To Office Media'. Dragging media files onto these headers will perform the described action.