Patent ID: 7783163

Claim:
A system for generating a computer-readable medium containing medical data related to a patient based on a search request received from a browsing station, said system comprising: a remote production station configured to generate a computer-readable medium containing medical image data, said remote production station being separate from the browsing station and said remote production station being coupled to an application server unit, wherein the medical image data comprises medical image data formatted in a standard medical imaging format used by a computer configured for viewing the medical image data; a computer database containing medical image data related to a patient; and the application server unit configured to: receive a search request for medical image data related to the patient; retrieve, in response to the search request, the requested medical image data from the computer database and additional data related to the patient from a second database; and cause the generation of the computer-readable medium at a said remote production station, said computer-readable medium containing the requested medical image data and the additional data related to the patient, wherein the remote production station can be chosen from among multiple remote production stations.