Patent ID: 7848936

Claim:
A method for providing protocols for configuration of a medical apparatus for implementing a medical examination, comprising the steps of: employing a central radiology information system as a server; employing a plurality of medical apparatuses, for respectively implementing medical examinations, as clients of said server; communicating among said radiology information system and said plurality of medical apparatuses via a network; producing a locally-created protocol at one of said medical apparatuses by generating or amending, at said one of said medical apparatuses, an existing protocol for implementing a medical examination and relaying said locally-created protocol from said one of said medical apparatuses at least to said radiology information system; generating a set of protocols at said radiology information system based on said locally-created protocol from said one of said medical apparatuses for distribution to at least some of the medical apparatuses, other than said one of said medical apparatuses, in said plurality of medical apparatuses; at said radiology information system, applying a consistency procedure to each protocol in said set of protocols to ensure consistency and uniformity, for use by said at least some of said medical apparatuses, among the protocols in said set of protocols, as a result of said set of protocols being generated based on said locally-created protocol produced at said one of said medical apparatuses; and automatically electronically emitting a warning message when said consistency check indicates said consistency and uniformity do not exist.