Patent ID: 8321238

Claim:
A method for computerized association of an assessor with a medical assessment task, comprising: in an electronic assessor data base, storing respective designations of a plurality of medical assessors respectively having expertise in assessing medical information presented in medical images, and selection information respectively associated with each of said assessors, and storing a plurality of medical assessment tasks, requiring assessment of a medical image, with associated medical task information, and storing said selection information with a designation as to whether the stored selection information is within a group of items of necessary selection information or within a group of items of additional selection information, and storing, in said medical task information, a designation as to whether the medical task associated with the medical task information requires said selection information to be in said group of items of necessary selection information; and entering the respective designation of one of said medical assessment tasks stored in said assessment data base, as an entered medical assessment task designation, into a processor having access to the data base and, from said processor, accessing, as accessed selection information, the selection information respectively associated with the entered medical assessment task designation and, in said processor, applying at least one computerized decision rule to said accessed selection information to automatically select a medical assessor, from among the plurality of medical assessors stored in said assessor data base, to perform the current medical assessment task as a selected medical assessor, and configuring said at least one computerized decision rule to, at least initially, preclude medical assessors in said data base lacking an item of necessary selection information from being selected for a medical assessment task in said data base that requires said item of necessary selection information, and emitting a designation in electronic form at an output of the processor that identifies the selected medical assessor.