Patent ID: 7970634

Claim:
A method for performing a radiology workflow with use of a radiology processing system, comprising: receiving, with the radiology processing system, a radiological reading request from a medical facility, wherein the radiological reading request includes a medical facility identifier; receiving, with the radiology processing system, parameterized doctor information data for a plurality of doctors, parameters within the doctor information data including one or more of a doctor identifier, doctor schedule information, a volume of uncompleted orders, a doctor classification composite metric, doctor location information, preference information, performance information, doctor compensation metrics, doctor subspecialty information, doctor credentialing information, and doctor contract terms; generating, with the radiology processing system, a list of available doctors to receive the radiological reading request using the medical facility identifier and the parameterized doctor information data, the list of available doctors being identified from the plurality of doctors, including: identifying doctors scheduled within the doctor schedule information, and identifying doctors available to receive the radiological reading request from the radiology processing system at an associated client device via a network connection; ranking, with the radiology processing system, the list of available doctors identified by the filtering, wherein the ranking includes factoring the volume of uncompleted orders pending for each in the list of available doctors and applying a preference for doctors having a low volume of uncompleted orders; identifying, with the radiology processing system, a selected doctor having a highest ranking within the list of available doctors; and transmitting, with the radiology processing system, the radiological reading request to the client device associated with the selected doctor.