Patent ID: 8073713

Claim:
A method for managing a network of medical image reading professionals, said method comprising: collecting, by a computing system, information associated with patients of medical image reading professionals in a network of medical image reading professionals, the patient information including clinical condition information, the collecting of information associated with patients including collecting sets of medical images; monitoring reported findings of a clinical condition of each patient by a medical image reading professional including monitoring the diagnosis of each patient by the medical image reading professional in reading the sets of medical images, the monitoring of reported findings including at least one of analyzing medical insurance claims, analyzing treatment reports, and analyzing random quality assurance medical image readings; determining, by the computing system, whether the reported findings of the clinical condition of each patient by the medical image reading professional is accurate compared to actual clinical condition of each respective patient; generating a score for each reported finding by the medical image reading professional, the score being indicative of accuracy of each reported finding as compared to the actual clinical condition of the patient, the generating of a score including applying a predetermined score for each of an accurate, false positive, false negative, or false equivocal reported finding being correct or incorrect; calculating a summary score of the scores for the medical image reading professional; and based on the summary score of the medical image reading professional, determining whether the medical image reading professional is to remain in the network of medical image reading professionals, and, if not, removing the medical image reading professional from the network of medical image reading professionals; and sending more medical images to medical image reading professionals with higher scores than medical image reading professionals with lower scores.