Patent ID: 8090593

Claim:
A method, comprising: processing an electronic request for evaluation of a set of digital medical images produced from a medical imaging procedure at an originating medical imaging location; and identifying, according to a workflow, a selected user from a plurality of users to conduct an evaluation of the set of digital medical images, the workflow comprising using a computer processor to perform the following acts: obtaining one or more request attributes from data extracted from one or both of the electronic request and the set of digital medical images, the request attributes including an identifier of the originating medical imaging location; obtaining parameterized information for the plurality of users, the parameterized information including user credentialing information and user licensing information for the originating medical imaging location obtained using the identifier of the originating medical imaging location; filtering the plurality of users to one or more users available to conduct the evaluation of the set of digital medical images in connection with the electronic request, the filtering performed by comparing the request attributes to the parameterized information; generating a ranking of users from one or more results of filtering the plurality of users, wherein one or more weighting factors used in the ranking of users include medical imaging location preferences obtained from the identifier of the originating medical imaging location; and identifying the selected user from the results of filtering the plurality of users using the ranking of users.