Roles and permissions

Everyone who uses your PACS has exactly one role. The role decides what they may do with studies.

The three roles

Role	View	Download	Upload	Share	Send to another PACS	Delete / modify / administer
Admin	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Doctor	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	—
User	✅	✅	—	—	—	—

• Admin — full control of the PACS, including deleting studies and changing Orthanc settings. Give this to the people who run the system, not to every physician.
• Doctor — the normal role for clinical staff: read studies, bring new ones in, download and share them. Cannot delete.
• User — read-only. Suitable for referring physicians, students, or anyone who only needs to look.

A user has one role at a time. Changing the role replaces the previous one.

Everyone sees every study

Roles control what you can do, not which studies you can see. All users in your environment can see all studies in it. There is no per- department or per-patient partitioning today, so do not use a single environment to separate data that must not be seen by the same people.

Where roles are assigned

Roles are set from the console, by whoever owns the subscription — see Manage users. They take effect the next time the person signs in.

Console roles are separate

The MyPACS console at platform.mypacs.co has its own, unrelated roles (customer and MyPACS staff). Being an Admin in your PACS does not give anyone access to your console account or your billing.