Patent ID: 6556698
Filing Date: 2003-04-29
Classification: G03B,G06F,G16H,H04N

Abstract:
A system for associating a radiographic film with patient information comprising:an imager for imaging a label having a unique patient identifier on a radiographic film; an input imaging device including: a processor for developing the radiographic film having the label imaged thereon, thereby forming at least one visible medical image on the radiographic film, and a film digitizer coupled to the processor for digitizing the medical image and the label image, thereby producing digital image data; and an interface device for analyzing the digital image data to determine the patient identifier of the label and associating the digitized radiographic film with one of a plurality of patients based on the determined patient identifier; wherein the interface device stores patient information in an information table having a plurality of entries such that each entry of the information table has a unique identifier, wherein the interface device selects one of the entries of information table when the unique identifier of the selected entry corresponds to the unique patient identifier of the label.