Patent ID: 8504726

Claim:
A computer-based method of distributing biological sample data, comprising: acquiring a digital image of a subject biological sample; processing the acquired digital image and image capture data according to at least one user, resulting in processed image data and capture metadata, the processed image data representing biological sample data of the subject biological sample; through a package processing, combining the processed image data and the capture metadata into a Package; and wherein the step of processing includes patient data processing and user processing, each comprising: the patient data processing including retrieval, inclusion of data from external data stores, resulting in user requested patient data; the user processing including retrieval and inclusion of image metadata and secondary data from external data stores, as well as further processing the secondary data into user requested metadata; and the package processing additionally including the user requested patient data and user requested metadata in the Package; and enabling simultaneous electronic access to the Package by multiple users, across multiple sectors, in addition to the one user.