Patent ID: 8059304

Claim:
A non-transitory machine-readable medium providing instructions that, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising: receiving medical data information in DICOM format through a software module and extracting patient identification information and study information from the received medical data information, the medical data further comprising one or more files; storing the extracted patient identification information and extracted study information, the stored extracted study information and patient identification information coming from the one or more files; storing DICOM image information coming from the one or more files; noting the end of the received medical data information through the software module for each patient; creating a job containing medical data for a patient, and medical data image viewing software; and providing print information for an autoloader control software, the print information having selected fields obtained from an automatic scan of the stored extracted patient identification information and the stored extracted study information; submitting the job to the autoloader control software; recording said DICOM image information from the one or more files on a recording media; recording other files as defined by DICOM on the recording media; recording on said recording media in response to the job, the medical data image viewing software and the medical data; and automatically printing the selected fields of the automatic scan of the stored extracted patient identification information and the stored extracted study information on the recording media to label the recording media.