Patent ID: 8694907

Claim:
An automated system for managing completion of a medical imaging study having one or more different reports associated with one or more different personnel, comprising: at least one processing device executing stored machine readable instructions and including, a user interface providing a plurality of display images; a configuration processor for enabling a user, using a display image, to assign a predetermined completion status to a plurality of different reports requiring completion by a corresponding plurality of different personnel for designation of an associated imaging study as complete, said predetermined completion status being used to indicate individual reports of said plurality of different reports are complete as required for said associated imaging study to be designated complete, said imaging study being produced during a patient imaging examination; a monitoring processor for automatically monitoring stored indicators indicating current status of said plurality of different reports requiring completion for designation of said associated imaging study as complete; and a decision processor for, in response to said monitoring of said stored indicators, automatically determining whether a current status of a report matches a corresponding predetermined completion status of a report for individual reports associated with said imaging study and in response to a match for said individual reports, automatically changing status of said imaging study by designating said imaging study is complete and signed.