Patent ID: 7970625

Claim:
A method of retrieving medical data, the method comprising: determining, by a user computing device, based on a user's stored rights to mark respective medical data as read, qualifications of the user of the user computing device to mark medical data as read, wherein users have varying rights to mark different types of medical data as read based on at least their respective medical training, and wherein marking respective medical data as read indicates that the user has completed observation of the respective medical data for purposes of creating a medical report; receiving, at the user computing device, user-specific rules from the user defining criteria for medical data to be retrieved by the user computing device; periodically selecting any medical data that both satisfies the user-specific rules and is associated with an indication that the medical data has not previously been marked as read by a user that is qualified to mark the respective medical data as read; and initiating transfer of the selected medical data for review by the user; allowing, by the user computing device, the user to mark the selected medical data as read in accordance with at least the determined qualifications of the user and a type of the selected medical data; and transmitting, by the user computing device, read indications received from the user to a network-connected computing device.