Smart Canvas

Smart Canvas is the chart section that lets you draw on or annotate an image — useful for marking the location of a finding on a body diagram, sketching over a photo of a skin condition, or showing exactly where you administered a treatment.

There are two kinds of image you can use on a Smart Canvas: generic images that live in your image library and can be reused across patient charts, and private images that belong to one patient and only appear on their charts.

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Generic vs Private Images

The distinction matters because it controls who else can see the image and whether it ends up in other patients’ charts.

Image type	Where it lives	Where it shows up
Generic Canvas Image (Canvas Template)	Your image library — accessible from any chart	Every chart you open can pick this image from the library to draw on
Private Image	Attached only to the chart it was uploaded to	Only this patient’s chart, only this visit

Generic is the right choice for body diagrams, posture templates, treatment maps — any reference image you’ll want available across many patients.

Private is the right choice for patient-specific photos — a rash, a wound, a posture photograph of this patient that has no business appearing as a template in anyone else’s chart.

Caution

Upload patient-specific photos as Private, not Generic. A photograph of a rash or wound that goes into the library by accident shows up as a selectable image in every other chart you open — including charts for other patients. Once it’s in the library, you have to find and remove it from the library to take it out of circulation. When in doubt, choose Private and you can always promote an image to the library later.

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Working with the Image Library

The image library holds your reusable generic images. Click the image library icon at the top of the Smart Canvas section to open it. From the library you can:

• Pick an existing generic image to add to the current chart
• Upload a new generic image so it’s available in future charts as well
• Remove an image from the library when you no longer need it

Once an image is on the canvas, drawing tools let you add lines, shapes, and annotations on top. The chart saves your annotations as part of the canvas — the original image stays clean in the library.

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Adding a Private Image

When you have a patient-specific photo to mark up:

1. Drag and drop the image directly onto the Smart Canvas section, or use the upload button.
2. Choose Private when prompted for the image type.
3. The image attaches to this chart only — it doesn’t enter the library.

You can draw on, annotate, and re-save the private image the same way as a library image; the difference is just visibility scope.

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Related Pages

• PRO Charting — overview of structured charting features
• The Charting Interface — where Smart Canvas fits in the chart screen
• Headings and Smart Lists — text-side counterpart for structured, reusable chart content