Patent ID: 7978888

Claim:
A method for presenting observation and measurement data that is supplementary to a native mode application processing DICOM Structured Report (SR) format to a display, comprising: producing a DICOM SR file containing data items in a medical apparatus; reading said DICOM SR file into a database using one or more mapping files comprising mapping information that maps the data items into the database, said mapping information being specific to said medical apparatus; determining which data items in the SR have mappings to the database defined using the mapping files; importing the data items of the SR that have defined mappings into the database; counting the data items of the SR that are imported into the database in said importing step; and displaying the count of the data items imported in said importing step and displaying a percentage of the data items in the SR that were imported in said importing step relative to the number of data items in the SR presented for importing during said importing step, said displaying step being performed on a display to a user.