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The Attachments Ability is divided into several nodes that change behavior depending on whether you have a patient selected or not.

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With no Patient selected, you are able to access all attachments tied to patients by navigating to Thumbnails or Patient Attachments in the Sidebar. If you have a patient selected, the results will hone down to Attachments assigned to that specific patient. 

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Let's review what each node contains in the sidebar.

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Thumbnails Node

This node, when expanded, will display a preview of all patients with Attachments/Images associated with them if no patient is selected. With a patient selected, thumbnails will appear in the window of all of their attachments. You can click once to select a thumbnail, or double click it to open the Attachment in Preview. A .mov file might be viewed in Quicktime, while a .pdf or .jpg file might be viewed in Preview, and so on.

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Once HIE Consent is checkmarked in Patients > Patient, you may transmit an attachment to HIE:

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Sharing Attachments to the Patient Portal

You can set patient attachments to be viewable on their Patient Portal page by checking the “Share in Portal” checkbox.

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You can read more about the Patient Portal in this article:How to Use the Patient Portal