Patent ID: 7689439

Claim:
A system comprising: a technician workflow system comprising a processor capable of causing the technician workflow system to: receive electrocardiogram (ECG) data associated with a requested review completion time, the ECG data being associated with at least one patient participating in a clinical trial, the requested review completion time being associated with the clinical trial; receive a number representing an amount of distributed ECG data present in each technician queue associated with at least one technician among a plurality of technicians, determine a technician among the plurality of technicians to receive the ECG data that is associated with the requested review completion time based on the requested review completion time and the amount of distributed ECG data present in each technician queue to allow the technician among the plurality of technicians to obtain a measurement of the ECG data before the requested review completion time; and provide the ECG data associated with the requested review completion time to a technician queue of the technician among the plurality of technicians determined to receive the ECG data; and a cardiologist workflow system comprising a system processor capable of causing the cardiologist workflow system to: receive the ECG data and the measurement from the technician workflow system; receive a number representing an amount of distributed ECG data present in each cardiologist queue that is associated with at least one cardiologist among a plurality of cardiologists, determine a cardiologist among the plurality of cardiologists to receive the ECG data and the measurement based on the requested review completion time and the amount of distributed ECG data present in each cardiologist queue to allow the cardiologist among the plurality of cardiologists to review the measurement made by the technician of the ECG data before the requested review completion time; provide the ECG data associated with the requested review completion time to a cardiologist queue of the cardiologist among the plurality of cardiologists determined to receive the ECG data; and receive a report created by the cardiologist among the plurality of cardiologists, the report comprising a result of the review by the cardiologist of the measurement.