Patent ID: 8081165

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of identifying and annotating a radiological image from an electronic medical record displayed on a touch screen, using a pen navigational device, comprising: displaying a medical image on the touch screen of a computer monitor of a client computer; receiving an instruction to link data from the electronic medical record (EMR) of a patient, which is stored in a database of one of a client computer or server computer, to the image on the touch screen; providing a color coded system in the pen navigational device, such that the pen navigational device can utilize color coding to identify, annotate, and prioritize portions of the image on the touch screen; wherein said color coding includes identifying different levels of clinical priority requiring action, on said image; calculating a pressure applied by the pen navigational device on the touch screen using a pressure sensing means at the client computer, in order to determine an amount of pressure applied, said amount of pressure which indicates one of said different levels of clinical priority requiring action, an increased pressure indicating a higher level of clinical priority with a corresponding predetermined color coding, and a decreased pressure indicating a lower level of clinical priority with a different corresponding predetermined color coding; displaying the annotated image with each of said different levels of color coding representing each of said different levels of clinical priority; and receiving and storing said annotated image with said different levels of color coding, in said database.