Patent ID: 7773793

Claim:
A method in a computing environment for associating one or more portions of a diagnostic image with at least one electronic medical record, the method comprising: receiving the diagnostic image in an electronic format, the diagnostic image including data particular to at least two persons, wherein the diagnostic image is an image of a gel result; when the diagnostic image is determined to be skewed in orientation, rotating the diagnostic image to a proper alignment; receiving gel loading data associated with the diagnostic image; based on the gel loading data, identifying common lanes of the diagnostic image; based on the gel loading data, identifying at least one lane of the diagnostic image particular to a first of the at least two persons and at least one lane of the diagnostic image particular to a second of the at least two persons; modifying the diagnostic image to create a modified image, wherein modifying the diagnostic image comprises parsing the at least one lane of the diagnostic image particular to the second of the at least two persons from the diagnostic image to create the modified image, the modified image comprising the at least one lane of the diagnostic image particular to the first of the at least two persons; and storing the modified image with an electronic medical record for the first of the at least two persons.