Patent ID: 8566119

Claim:
A method of notifying medical professionals of a need for evaluation of images of a medical scan, comprising the steps of: enrolling a medical professional in a computer system, the enrolling of the medical professional including a medical professional type; gathering medical data from a patient; entering the medical data gathered from the patient, an urgency type for the patient, and a medical data type for the patient into a data archival system; evaluating the urgency type for the patient related to the medical data; conducting a broadcast message to a medical professional with a medical professional type corresponding to the medical data type when the urgency type corresponds to a need for immediate reading of the medical data for the patient; recalling and deleting the broadcast message conducted to the medical professional in response to a determination status of a medical imaging examination has changed and the broadcast message data is not the most current that is available; and retrieving the broadcast message to the medical professional and conducting a replacement broadcast when the urgency type of the medical data changes from a first state to a second state and updating an inbox in substantially real-time with the replacement broadcast.