Patent ID: 8509604

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving at an interface associated with a robotic disc burning system a request for medical imaging data recordable on a portable non-transitory digital recording medium that is removable from the robotic disc burning system; receiving, over a network in response to the request, exam data comprising medical imaging data formatted in a standard medical imaging format, wherein receiving exam data comprises receiving exam data by the robotic disc burning system which is configurable to query a plurality of data stores for data formatted in a standard medical imaging format; storing at least some of the exam data in data storage associated with the robotic disc burning system; recording, by the robotic disc burning system, at least the following onto the recording medium: at least some of the received medical imaging data; and a viewing program that is configured to allow viewing of the medical imaging data that is recorded onto the recording medium by a general purpose computer that is not specifically configured with medical imaging software for viewing of medical imaging data; and transmitting, by the robotic disc burning system, audit data that comprises at least a date associated with the recording and a patient identifier associated with the recording.