Patent ID: 8612253

Claim:
A method for processing medical diagnostic imaging orders using medical image data, comprising: receiving a portion of the medical imaging data at an image order processing server, the medical imaging data relating to a medical diagnostic imaging procedure conducted at a medical imaging facility, wherein the received portion is less than all of the medical imaging data relating to the medical diagnostic imaging procedure; processing the received portion of the medical imaging data, at the image order processing server, to extract at least a portion of data from the received portion of the medical imaging data; creating and populating a medical diagnostic imaging order, at the image order processing server, from at least one data value provided by the extracted data, wherein the medical diagnostic imaging order is created and populated from the received portion of the medical imaging data; electronically transmitting the medical diagnostic imaging order to the medical imaging facility for verification of the medical diagnostic imaging order, wherein the medical diagnostic imaging order is electronically transmitted to the medical imaging facility for verification prior to receiving all of the medical imaging data relating to the medical diagnostic imaging procedure; and selecting, at the image order processing server in response to successful verification of the medical diagnostic imaging order at the medical imaging facility, a client computing system for receipt of the medical diagnostic imaging order, using at least one data value indicated in the verified medical diagnostic imaging order, wherein the client computing system is associated with at least one particular user.