Patent ID: 8126861

Claim:
A computerized method for managing studies transferred from at least one acquisition device to a study process server in order to transfer the studies to at least one review station, the computerized method comprising: without having previously distributed the studies to a review station: automatically sorting the studies into a plurality of working sets at the study process server, each working set comprising a collection of studies ready for review by at least one clinician as a set, wherein all studies within each working set are ready for delivery for review by the at least one clinician, automatically selecting a subset of studies from a first working set to be transferred to a review station, and automatically transferring the subset of studies from the first working set from the study process server to the review station such that the subset of studies from the first working set is available for review at the review station upon detecting a login, while delaying transfer of remaining studies in the first working set until clinician review of the subset of studies from the first working set at the review station is detected; after completing transfer of the subset of studies from the first working set to the review station, monitoring the review station for clinician review of the subset of studies from the first working set; detecting a clinician reviewing the subset of studies from the first working set at the review station; and populating the review station with additional studies from the first working set in response to detecting the clinician reviewing the subset of studies from the first working set at the review station.